As a high school comedy-drama celebrating the outcast community, Glee has its roots in 80s shows like Fame and Square Pegs, as well as 90s favorites My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks. There are times when Glee is best enjoyed as a 40s or 50s era MGM musical: don’t worry so much about the [...]
Education & Family
Adoption Healing: A Book Review
By Joe Soll (Gateway Press, Inc.) Some books are so good that you can even forgive your friend for “borrowing” your copy and never giving it back. Adoption Healing … a path to recovery by Joe Soll is one such book.
Culture & History
Who’s Your Daddy: Gender Identity and Paternity in Japan
In 2004, the Japanese government enacted the Gender Identity Disorder Law, which allowed transgendered people to finally change their sex on official identification. Although some argue that defining a change in gender identity as a disorder is wrong-headed and biased, the law does at least allow for people to live in society as their true [...]
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Addressing the Global Water Crisis Through Action In Unity For Change
The world’s water is running out–unless we take steps to ensure that future generations will have access to clean, safe water.
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Counseling Services of Adoption Agencies Experienced by Unwed Mothers
Choi Hyong-Sook, an unwed mother who once lost her child to adoption, but who fought to take him back and is now raising him as an unwed mother, is working to transform an unjust social order into one where we can all be more fully human. The paper described the experiences of five unwed mothers who participate in the group called Korea Unwed Mothers & Families Association, also fondly known to the Seoul adoptees as “Miss Mamma Mia.”
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Whose Right? Adoption Exclusion in America
Last week Mexico City took progressive action, legalizing same sex marriage and adoption. Our southern neighbor’s controversial ruling is giving new fuel to both sides in the debate over same-sex rights in the U.S. In many states, same-sex marriage advocates hit a roadblock in changing the rhetoric that defines marriage as a union between a [...]
Culture & History
Christmas For All Families
By Guest Blogger Leanne Leith Christmas season in Korea. Tonight is the first ASK/TRACK (Adoption Solidarity Korea/Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea) Christmas party for unwed moms and their children. We support them in their efforts to increase social services to struggling families, in an effort to reduce the supposed need for [...]
Culture & History
Adoption Awareness Month: Thanksgiving and the Adoptee Pilgramage
By Guest Blogger Leanne Leith Today I’m a little homesick. I miss my kids, my one true family. We’re a little strange. I haven’t even spoken on the phone to them the whole time I’ve been here, but that’s not something that’s ever been necessary with us. We know we’re in each other’s thoughts. And [...]
Education & Family
Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry
Mirah Riben and Bernadette Wright argue that mothers’ rights are women’s rights. Women’s rights mean recognizing mothers’ rights to parent their own children. Read the Entire Article: Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry Related Articles The Narrative of International Adoption Transnational Adoption and the “Financialization of Everything” EDITORIAL International Adoption [...]
Culture & History
National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month. In order to debunk myths, put forth alternatives for the future, and address pertinent issues surrounding adoption, Conducive Chronicles will be posting about adoption issues throughout the month Related Articles The Narrative of International Adoption Transnational Adoption and the “Financialization of Everything” EDITORIAL International Adoption and the Fight for Human [...]
Education & Family
What does “Gotcha” mean?
November is National Adoption Month. What would such a celebration of adoption, whether in the U.S. or another country, mean to my Korean birthmother? At the time my mother became a “birthmother,” I was six months old, and my sister was four years old. Because she passed away about nine years ago, I will take [...]
Culture & History
Finding Home in Two Worlds
Laurie Stern and her husband have worked to help their adopted son know his two worlds and understand the complexity of his culture. They believe the most authentic cultural information they can give their son is through visiting his birth family in Santiago Atitlán. Learn about their family trip to Guatemala in Finding Home in [...]
Creating Solutions
Nothing About Us Without Us
Do you believe that access to medical information is important for all people, including adoptees and the children of adoptees? Are you a Korean adoptee who believes that you should have a say in the laws that Korea makes about the lives of existing adoptees and future adoptees? Would you like fair laws to govern the birthfamily search process? Do believe that unwed Korean mothers should be educated and supported in keeping their own children? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you may be interested in what is happening this fall in Seoul with the revisions of Korea’s adoption laws.
Culture & History
Daughter from Danang
Under the belief that her daughter’s life was in imminent danger, Mai Thi Kim sent seven year old Heidi to America along with over 2,000 other Amerasian children as part of what became known as Operation Babylift. Over twenty years later, PBS documentary Daughter from Danang follows their heartbreaking journey. Related Articles The Narrative of [...]
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