BY ADOPTEES OR ABOUT ADOPTEES
Barcella, Laura. (2014). Adoptees Like Me ‘Flip the Script’ on the Pro-Adoption Narrative
Brice, Anne (2019) Staffer’s search for birth mom reveals dark history of Guatemalan adoption
Carroll, Rebecca. (2017). For Some Adopted Kids, There’s a Danger in Erasing Racial Lines
Chauhan, Arvind. (2018). 43 Years On, 2 Adopted Americans Are Back ‘Home’ to Find Their Roots
Chung, Nicole. (2018). People Want to Know That I’m Happy I was Adopted. Its Not That Simple
DeCourcey, Danielle. (2017). What It’s Like to Be Adopted by White Parents
Fyneweyer, Nasreen. (2018). The Cost of Being a Transracial Adoptee
Ito, Susan. (2017). November Nonfiction: “The Missing Half”
Johnson, Leslie. (2018). Adolescence and Adoption How Adoptive Parents can Support Teens
Kelly, Megan., Christopher Malafronti, and Casey Lu Simon-Plumb. (2018). On Being Adoptee, Part 1: “On Adoption As Trauma” Part 1 of 3
Knight, Gina Atinuke. (2018). ‘A White Family Raised Me- I learned to Love Being Black’
Latty, Liz. (2017). Adoption Is A Feminist Issue, But Not For The Reasons You Think
Leontiades, Louisa. (2015). Five Hard Truths About Adoption Adoptive Parents don’t want to Hear
Mesesan, Diana. (2017). The Romanian Boy Who Overcame the Dark Side of an International Adoption
Riben, Mirah. (2018). When Adults Discover They Were Adopted: The Ultimate Betrayal/ Life Hi-Jacked
Rostad, Rachel. (2018). Hiking Toward Koreanness: An Adoptee Returns to Her Motherland
Rousso, Faith Getz. (2016). Why Adoptive Parents Need To Know And Respect Their Child’s Birthmother
Rule, Misty Shock. (2020). Finding a Taste of My Identity.
Strabuk, Alexa. (2020). There is no way to capture the full complexity of transracial adoption
White, Hanna Hyun (2019). Dear Hannah Hyun — An Open Letter to My Younger Self
CHILD TRAFFICKING
Alzazeera (2018). Adoption Inc: The Baby Business
Aravamudan, Gita. (2017).Child Trafficking, ‘Manufactured Orphans’: The Dark Underbelly Of Inter-Country Adoption In India
Aravamudan, Gita. (2018).Child trafficking in India: When children are bought and sold in the quest for a ‘better life’
Biswa, Soutik. (2016). ‘My baby isn’t dead, she was stolen from me’
Deepak, Pinto, (2018). Legal Tangles Push Illegal Adoption in Hyderabad
Kaye, Randi and Wayne Drash. (2018). Kids for Sale: ‘My Mom Was Tricked’
Malm, Sarah. (2019). The Stolen Children: ‘Hundreds of Babies were Taken from their Mothers to be Adopted in Sweden…
Mushin, Nahum. (2018). Forced Adoption: Five Years On, There’s Still So Much Work to be Done to Right the Wrongs
Neuman, Scott. (2018). Late Mother Teresa’s Order Investigated For Child Trafficking in India
Ochieng, Abiud. (2018). Traffickers on the Loose: How Children Are Sold to Highest Bidder in Name of Adoption
Overton, Penelope. (2018). Maine Man Learns Truth of his Past: Nuns Stole Him as a Baby From his Mother in Ireland
Poppy, Nick. (2017). This Woman Stole Children from the Poor to Give to the Rich
Romo, Raphael. (2018). Chile’s stolen children: American Woman Finds her Chilean Mother 36 years After Birth
United States Attorneys Office Northern District of Ohio (2019). Texas woman pleads guilty to conspiracy to facilitate adoptions from Uganda through bribery and fraud
CHURCH
Mock, Melanie Springer. (2013). Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption
FOSTER CARE
Jaye, Lola. (2017). Colour-blind Love that Defied Politically Correct Social Workers: How LOLA JAYE was Wrenched From Her Beloved White Foster Mum Aged Nine to be Placed with a Black Family
Sankaran, Vivek S. (2018). Rushing Foster Kids into Quick Adoptions isn’t Always in their Best Interest
MURDER/ABUSE
Associated Press and Snejana Farberov. (2018). Stay-at-home mother, 55, shoots and kills her four adopted children before turning in the gun on herself in a murder-suicide
Betz, Bradford. (2018). Kids Killed by Mom in Murder- suicide Asked to Live with Her
Brown, Sherronda J. (2018).The Deaths of Devonte Hart and His Siblings is Why We Dont Trust White Allies
Ghossein, Daniella. (2017). Does the Process of Adoption Possess Elements of Child Abuse?
Kenneally, Christine. (2018). We Saw Nuns Kill Children The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
Patton, Stacey. (2018). We Can’t Ignore Race in the Tragic Story of Devonte Hart and His White Adoptive Mothers
Philly, Deep Green. (2018). Withering Under the White Gaze: The Hart Family Tragedy
Stanglin, Doug. (2013). Prosecution Says Adopted Girl Died in ‘Horror House’
Tremlett, Giles. (2016). Why Did Two Parents Murder Their Adopted Child?
(2018). Sherin Mathews: Father of Adopted Girl Charged with Murder
RACE
Akala. (2018). ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness’
Menon, MK. (2018). I Interviewed for a Scientist Position, But I Was Asked about Terroism Instead
Parker, Malaika. (2018). Asking the Hard Questions: A Black Mama Unpacks Adoption Myths and Lies
Shoots, Danielle. (2018). The Worry of the Black American Mother: Danielle’s Story
Tam. Ruth. (2018). Powerful Stories From Adoptive Parents And Adoptees On Transracial Adoption
Tucker, Angela. (2018). WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WHITE PARENTS ADOPT BLACK CHILDREN AND MOVE TO BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS
Dr. Williams, Brian. (2018). Why Adopting Black Babies Costs Less Than Adopting White Babies
Valby, Karen. (2015). 5 Things One Mom Wishes She’d Been Told Before Adopting Her Black Son
Various authors. (2018). Black Mothers Respond to Our Cover Story on Maternal Mortality
Varzi, Changiz M. 2016. Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption
REHOMING
Dhingra, Sanya. (2018). Spanish Couple Abandon Adopted Indian child, Bhopal agency Under the Scanner
Lillie, Michelle. (2013). Rehoming Adopted Children
Smith, Jennifer. (2018). Man and Woman are Arrested After her Four Adopted Children Aged Five to 12 were Found in BOXES that Were Closed with Plywood and Screws
REUNION
Collis, Ashleigh. (2017). Closed adoptions a form of violence
Deshmukh, Chaitraly. (2018). Spanish Girl Returns To Meet Indian Mother After 22 Years In Pune
Moreno, Chelsea. (2018). Adopted Woman Reunited with Biological Mom, Sisters after 60 Years
Thorbecke, Catherine. (2018). Adopted Man Reunites With His Birth Parents 37 Years Later After Connecting Through DNA Test
Tolberyt, Kathryn. (2018). He searched for his Japanese birth mother. He found her — and the restaurant she had named after him.
Tran, Cindy. (2018). He Didn’t Know I Existed…
Yan, Alice. (2018). Putting faces to the past: how adoptees in the West are seeking out their birth families in China
SUICIDE
Barra, Angela. (2017). We Need to Talk About Adoptee Suicide
McCauley, Maureen. (2018). The Heartache of Another Adoptee Suicide: Rest in Peace Kaleab Schmidt
Quimby, Beth. (2018). Scarborough Mourns Student Who Inspired Despite a life of Dislocation
Riben, Mirah. (2017).Toward Preventing Adoption Related Suicide
Sargo, Chris. (2018). Tragic Deaths of Mia Farrow’s Three Adopted Children From Suicide, AIDs-related Illness (on Christmas) and ‘heart failure’ that Actress’ Son Moses Claims was in Fact an Overdose of Pills
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