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[url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/07/13/daily-circuit-roundtable-adoption/]Roundtable: The adoptee experience | Minnesota Public Radio News[/url] It isn't just about the Korean adoptee experience growing up with white parents and racism - it has more discussions and calls. JaeRan Kim one of the guests is also the author of the blog Harlows Monkey... Kind regards,Dickons
Guests [FONT=Arial]Kim Park Nelson: [/FONT][URL="http://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/USKI_WP_0901.pdf"]Associate professor[/URL] of American multicutlural studies at Minnesota State University at Moorhead [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]JaeRan Kim: [/FONT][URL="http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/ContinuingEducation/Bios/jaerankim.html"]Stability, permanency and adoption coordinator[/URL] at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the University of Minnesota [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Kelly Fern: [/FONT][URL="http://songsofmyfamilies.com/about/"]Author[/URL] of 'Songs of My Families'
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I'll bet this is very interesting and they have a lot of data on Korean adoption than most other transracial adoption, because Korean adoption has been going on for so long, now. I remember, back when we were first trying in earnest to adopt, in the late70s/early 80s, Holt had all ready been doing it for at least 10-15 years. We even know some people who had adopted through them. Unfortunately, by about 1980, when we could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, as far as my husband's education and were about to give up on infertility treatment, there was something going on so that Holt wasn't able to work with any more new couples for a while. I guess our kids just weren't coming from Korea. Do you happen to know how many Korean children have been adopted by Americans? My husband's brother married a Korean woman (born and raised in Seoul), when she was in her mid-30s. She got pregnant once and they were thrilled, but she lost it. Of course, I told them I thought they'd have a real easy time adopting a Korean baby, but they didn't want to. She said that children given up for adoption were considered to be inherently inferior, which really shocked me. Of course, that was almost 30 years ago. I hope the attitudes have improved, somewhat, since then.
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Noelani, I believe the estimate is 200,000 of which a huge portion of course went to the US. The adoptees from Korea are making significant changes not only in the US but also in Korea - they worked really hard to change the adoption laws in Korea (will find the details and post again), they have also worked to reduce the stigma of unwed mothers in Korea and set up programs so mothers aren't forced to surrender their babies in Korea. The show really is really worth listening to regardless of race adopted when it comes to any transracial adoption and it goes further into the generational affects as well - one caller spoke to how can she teach her child about something she didn't grow up with. Kind regards,Dickons
Just a few of many of the actions taken... AdopSource is your organization for resources and services relating to the adoptee experience. [url=http://www.adopsource.org/]AdopSource | Home[/url] KUMSN - Korean unwed mothers support network started by Dr. Boas an AP. [url=http://www.kumsn.org/main/]Welcome to KUMSN Website[/url] Brief article on the changes to the adoption law in Korea.[url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2938312]Korea passes law to change adoption policy-INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily[/url] I am by no means an expert on Korea but I am amazed at the way the adoptees from Korea have become activists for making it better. Kind regards,Dickons