From Conducive Mag- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010Arrested by Haitian authorities for trying to cross illegally into the Dominican Republic with 33 so-called orphaned children, whose parents were later found to be alive, U.S. citizens and Idaho Baptist missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter remain imprisoned in Port-au-Prince pending investigation of alleged child trafficking. Seeking to save... […]
- Stressed Graduate Student March 8, 2010Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school. […]
- Preserving Relationship with Parents Despite Their Disapproval Over New Job March 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one's parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job. […]
- FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 February 25, 2010ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 […]
- A Bronx Girl Goes Home February 5, 2010The murder of a cousin takes Conducive editor Heather Tirado Gilligan back to her home in the Bronx, and back to the childhood and experiences that continue to shape her. […]
- Using Anger Constructively February 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively. […]
- Looking Back to the Future? January 30, 2010Humankind, both collectively and individually, has a strange little quirk. We ignore the past when it holds valuable lessons that go against what we want to hear or believe. Our insistence in doing this has negatively affected our future many times, both as individuals and as a society. We give... […]
- Campaigns Take Individual Involvement To New Level January 28, 2010The production and consumption of bottled water contributes to waste, pollution, toxins, and the bottled water industry’s interest in controlling our water resources. As a result of these negative impacts, many people have vowed to stop buying bottled water. If you have successfully ditched bottled water, and want to stay... […]
- REDUCING THE SUICIDE STIGMA Suresh Unni's Story January 21, 2010There are many ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. For Suresh Unni, solace is found in sharing his brother's experience with depression and eventual demise from suicide. Through his work as a clinical social worker and therapist and participation on the board of directors of the... […]
- Dating a Separated Person January 18, 2010Conducive advice columunist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on dating a separated person. […]
- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010
Tag Archives: Adoption
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 adoption, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Culture & History, Education & Family Also tagged Adoptee, Korea, National Adoption Month, pilgramage, TRACK 2 Comments
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.
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Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry
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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
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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 the [...]
Posted in Education & Family, Gender & Feminism Also tagged Adoptee, Adoption Month, birthfamily search, Gotcha Day, Holt, international adoption, Korea, prospective adoptive parent, TRACK 4 Comments
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 [...]
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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.
Posted in Creating Solutions, Education & Family, Gender & Feminism Also tagged Adoptee, adoption law revisions, South Korea, unwed mothers 5 Comments
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.
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Whose Right? Adoption Exclusion in America