International adoption
Danish Korean adoptees seek truth about their adoption circumstances
“We have reason to suspect that a lot of the information about us, at least the information we know, is incorrect,” said Peter Knudsen, who is one of 50 cosigners on an application filed to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week to clarify their origins.
This woman reconnected with her birth mother in Brazil to find peace. For her adoptive mom.
Thaisi Da Silva left Brazil for the U.S. with her adoptive parents at the age of 4. Since then, she’s returned twice to try to reconnect with her birth mother. But her journey has been more about finding peace for her adoptive mother than for herself.
One girl’s controversial adoption, and what it says about Guatemala’s broken international adoption system
Guatemala halted international adoptions years ago, because the process had become so corrupted. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about adoptions that went through in the past, and about one highly controversial case in particular.
A New Magazine Hopes to Spark Frank Talk About Race and Identity in Adoption
A new magazine aims to provide a voice for adult adoptees around the country. Many of the magazine’s contributors are from Minnesota, a state with a rich history of international adoption. Minnesota Public Radio’s Laura Yuen reports.