The headline is misleading because the law merely eases access to amended birth certificates while original birth certificates and adoption records remain sealed—denying adoptees vital identity, family, health, and lineage information and sustaining a civil rights injustice. buff.ly/oN15acL 🥚

The Spanish Foreign Ministry has historically failed to track what happened to these children, many who were adopted abroad under now questionable circumstances, recalling long standing allegations of baby theft and forced adoptions that has left many adoptees with missing records. buff.ly/cTe1j0I 🥚

Award-winning podcaster Patrick Armstrong (Conversation Piece and The Janchi Show) joins Anna Sarkitova to explore adoptee identity, storytelling, and healing. Online Sunday at 3pm, this is a fundraising event to help support the advocacy work of the Michigan adoptee community. buff.ly/AQmVnrn 🥚

Join us for Finding Myself Through Adoptee Connection, with Patrick Armstrong this Sunday at 3 pm!!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-my...

South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions by 2029, following criticism that it has not adequately investigated or compensated adoptees sent abroad with falsified records or who faced abuse. U.N. experts say more must be done to provide truth and reparations to those affected. buff.ly/q7ErJTJ 🥚

Tanya Kaanta, Korean adoptee and Executive Director of the TIES Program, joins Anna Sarkitova for a thoughtful conversation on adoptee-centered healing, identity, and connection today at 3pm EST. Hope to see you there! 🥚 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-journe...

How does adoptee lived experience shape healing and identity? Discover insights from Tanya Kaanta, Executive Director of The Ties Program, in conversation with Anna Sarkitova online Sunday January 4th, 2026. All are welcome. 🥚

For Michigan adoptees who are seeking birth information from the state, join our free workshop with search angel Susan Christin and figure out where to start! 🥚

Host of Conversation Piece and The Janchi Show, Patrick Armstrong joins Anna Sarkitova for an adoptee-centered conversation on identity, belonging, and the role of community in healing. 🥚

Please join us this Sunday for The Journey Home: Centering Adoptees In Healing and Connection www.eventbrite.com/e/the-journe...

As a transracial, transnational, transgender adoptee, Sanjay Pulver brings rare insight into how identities overlap and collide. Join Anna online for this conversation tomorrow, Sunday the 28th at 3pm EST. All are welcome.🥚

Living the Intersections: Adoption, Race, and Gender with Sanjay Pulver Join us to hear about Sanjay’s experience of adoption and how the intersections of being trans and Indian have shaped him and his perspective of identity in a personal and global sense. www.eventbrite.com/e/living-the...

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Join Anna in her conversation with adoptee advocate Sanjay Pulver for a powerful conversation on how race, nationality, gender, and adoption shape identity and belonging, this Sunday the 28th at 3pm EST, and help support the work of the Michigan adoptee community. 🥚

After learning her father was adopted, Jennifer spent 20 years trying to uncover her family history. Through genetic research and DNA testing, she ultimately located her father’s long-lost family, showing how these mysteries can be solved, and how later generations are impacted. buff.ly/SW0Z6BF 🥚

Adoptive parents teaching adoption in high schools centers their perspective, dismisses adoptees’ lived experiences, and legitimizes a system that has silenced and condemned birth parents. This propaganda prioritizes the interests of adoptive parents and the industry over truth. buff.ly/tVqiHQG 🥚

Decades apart, now building community together, don’t miss Linda and Louise’s conversation today at 3pm EST with host Anna Sarkitova. 🥚

Canada has put into effect Bill C‑3, fixing long-standing barriers for children born or adopted abroad. It restores citizenship for those previously excluded and clarifies how Canadian parents born or adopted abroad can pass citizenship to their children. 🥚

The stories of Korean–Australian adoptees show how adoptees, birth families and adoptive parents were all harmed by a global system that prioritized demand over human rights, and why it's necessary for adoptees to seek truth and accountability to protect future generations. buff.ly/GKoDVR2 🥚

What helps in reunion? What harms? Two women who’ve lived it are opening the conversation, and building a community to change the future. Reunited after decades with a mission born from healing. Don't miss Linda and Louise’s story. 🥚

A doctor in Lebanon was exposed for his role in the long-standing system of child trafficking for adoption, a practice sustained for decades by networks of doctors, midwives, lawyers, officials, and brokers, rooted in gender-based violence and upheld by patriarchal societies. buff.ly/GPbIKhr 🥚

Bethany Christian Services claimed a federal settlement with Michigan that never actually existed, filing to enforce a deal the state and court rejected, raising serious questions about its credibility and its aggressive legal tactics. buff.ly/hXlru6F 🥚

An adoptee discovers her Romanian orphanage kidnapped her during her mother’s illness and placed her with a U.S. adoptive family. Her story illustrates the harm caused when children are treated as commodities, leaving families searching for one another worldwide. buff.ly/MOI7JnF 🥚

After reuniting decades later, Linda Reboulet and Louise Okuri now support others navigating adoption and loss. Join them as they discuss the realities of reunion and the creation of Traveling Together thru Trauma. 🥚

Birth mothers from this year’s CUB conference in Atlanta were interviewed about their concerns over systems that drive unnecessary adoptions. Republicans promote adoption as an alternative to abortion and provide tax incentives, but mothers get no support to keep their infants. 🥚

A critical panel on safe haven baby boxes featuring Marley Greiner and Patricia Ann Knight Meyer, informed by Gretchen Sisson’s research and voices like Adopted Connor and Abbi Johnson. youtu.be/dEXX_Mm3vMY 🥚

Laure Mi Hyun Croset’s work explores identity, perception, and belonging, ultimately finding “home” in language while navigating life between Korea and Switzerland. She returned to Korea to share her work and to further explore Korean life and culture. 🥚

Join us online tomorrow for a special in-depth conversation with Michigan transracial adoptees Ned Andree and Tiana Hawver as they explore adoptee identity, racial justice, and the urgent realities facing adoptees of color today. 🥚

A new documentary exposes how thousands of infants across Europe were falsely declared dead and sold for adoption. An estimated 100,000 mothers were told their newborns had died, leaving families devastated and searching for the truth decades later. 🥚

In this moving piece, Jill Uchiyama shares her decades-long journey to reclaim her original name and understand where she came from. Her story exposes the deep personal impact of sealed records and the enduring need for adoptee rights. 🥚 buff.ly/gROBsnB

While the UK bans adoptions from some countries over child trafficking and corruption concerns, it allows the sale of women as surrogates in those same countries. Governments should not permit the sale of infants or women, and true moral consistency would require banning both. 🥚

The UN General Assembly adopted a nonbinding resolution calling on Russia to stop forced transfers, deportations, family separations and to halt the adoption of Ukrainian children, demanding their immediate, safe, and unconditional return, with 91 countries in agreement. 🥚

You’re invited to a powerful dialogue with Michigan transracial adoptees Ned Andree and Tiana Hawver, diving into the intersections of identity, race, and the challenges adoptees of color continue to face. All are welcome. 🥚

After years of dead ends, including being told his records were lost in a flood, son finds birth mom and has a good reunion. Adoptees often describe a sense of clarity in reunion, while many birth parents report deep relief after years of wondering about their child's wellbeing. 🥚

Korean American adoptee and bestselling author Nicole Chung spoke about identity and writing from lived experience. She read from All You Can Ever Know and challenged simplified adoption narratives while inviting a more honest conversation about race, family and self-understanding.🥚

Don’t miss Anna Sarkitova’s interview with author Jean Kelly Widner today at 3pm EST to hear about her new book, The Adoption Paradox. Join us! 🥚

Netflix star Tina publicly announced she was adopted as an infant, and faced racism and identity struggles growing up as a Chinese adoptee with white parents. She now advocates for adoptee awareness, anti-racism, and open conversations about adoption’s challenges. 🥚

Join us this Sunday at 3pm EST online as Anna Sarkitova interviews author Jean Kelly Widner about her new book, The Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption Into Perspective. Don’t miss this thoughtful conversation. 🥚

Don’t miss this powerful conversation as Michigan transracial adoptees Ned Andree and Tiana Hawver come together to discuss identity, racial justice, and the pressing issues shaping the experiences of adoptees of color today. 🥚 buff.ly/KAKR1Ct

The history of roughly 4,000 children born in Greece who were adopted to the U.S. between 1950 and 1975 reflect a form of post-war migration not chosen by the children. When records are scarce, the "materiality" of adoptions often provide the only link to an adoptees' roots. 🥚

Statista recently released ASP Convention adoption fees range widely by country, with the Republic of Congo the highest and Belgium the lowest in 2023. Reducing adoption to price tiers exposes the profit driven system built into intercountry adoption. 🥚

Join us for a relaxed, inclusive meetup at Cadillac Square to enjoy the Winter Markets, holiday tree, and lodge vibes together. Free to attend — all adoptees welcome! 🥚

This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to stand with the Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition as we fight for truth, transparency, and dignity for every adopted person in our state. To donate, please visit our website: michiganadoptees.org/contribute/

For decades, women and children were torn apart by forced adoption policies, and many live with the trauma of profound rights violations. Survivors are calling for justice, and their stories confront the comforting myths of “rescue” and “second chances” that masked lifelong harm. 🥚

A leading support service in Queensland warns that expanding adoption, especially the model that severs a child’s legal and family ties, could harm the children it aims to protect. They stress adoption must prioritize identity, connection, and lifelong wellbeing. 🥚

Join Anna in a conversation with Jean Kelly Widner about her new book The Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption Into Perspective, where Jean draws on research and nearly 100 personal interviews to expose the real complexities of modern adoption and the journey of adoptee identity. 🥚

Many adoptees wrestle with memory and identity, and one Korean adoptee-writer is using language as a way back toward herself. Her story reflects an ongoing process of piecing together memories, confronting shame, and reclaiming a sense of belonging. 🥚

Your birthright shouldn’t have a ZIP code. All adoptees deserve equal rights.

The number of children adopted in the U.S. from abroad has fallen dramatically from over 12,700 in 2009 to under 1,300 in 2023. This sharp decline reflects growing ethical concerns and a shift in how adoption and child welfare are approached worldwide. 🥚