The Iowa Adoptee and Family Coalition oppose Safe Haven abandonment boxes because they remove protections under Iowa’s person-to-person Safe Haven law, stripping away critical safeguards for mothers and infants. Stop Baby Boxes Now reports that none have been used in Iowa. 🥚

Join Anna and Sandi for this great conversation and an opportunity to support our adoptee advocacy work in Michigan. 🥚

Because protections vary by state, many young people have little control over where or how they are portrayed or whether their images are shared or not. The rights and safety of children should come way before marketing and recruitment. 🥚

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! 🥚

Keegan reunited with her biological family in South Korea after decades of living with false information about the circumstances of her adoption. Her reunion underscores how poverty frequently drives family separation, and how essential truthful origins are to adoptee wellbeing. 🥚

TODAY @ 3EST. Renee Gelin, President and Co-Founder of Saving Our Sisters (SOS), Katie Burns, Founder of The Family Preservation Project and Anna Sarkitova, Intercountry adoptee and Michigan adoptee advocate. Together, they will explore truth, loss, and justice in adoption. buff.ly/lyFXMXw 🥚

Sunday. 11/16/25 @ 3:00 PM EST Join in to the conversation about the lifelong impact of transnational adoption with Anna Sarkitova and Sandi Morgan Caesar. Don't miss out on this event - get your tickets now! 🥚

Access to our original birth certificates doesn't violate privacy or mandate contact. It ends state-enforced policing of our relationships and restores identity, autonomy, and equal rights for adoptees. 🥚

Korean intercountry adoptees are searching for the most basic truth: who they come from. 57-year-old Park Won-il (Philip Pellouchoud), has spent decades trying to reclaim his roots, with organizations like KoRoot supporting his search for information about his parents. 🥚

Renee Gelin, President and Co-Founder of Saving Our Sisters (SOS), Katie Burns, Founder of The Family Preservation Project and Resource Coordinator for SOS, and Anna Sarkitova, Michigan adoptee advocate. Together, they will explore truth, loss, and justice in adoption. buff.ly/lyFXMXw 🥚

November is National Adoptee Awareness Month. CS Wright reminds us that adoptee and immigrant rights are intertwined, and that reclaiming identity and belonging calls for activism, healing, and solidarity together. 🥚

Sunday. 11/16/25 @ 3:00 PM EST Join in to the conversation about the lifelong impact of transnational adoption with Anna Sarkitova and Sandi Morgan Caesar. Don't miss out on this event - get your tickets now! 🥚

About a third of foster youth are LGBTQ, yet the federal government is challenging Vermont’s requirement that foster and adoptive parents affirm a child’s gender, prioritizing adult ideology over a child’s right to their own identity. 🥚

Sara Conway writes about growing up as a Chinese American adoptee in a predominantly white suburb, and the six books that helped her try to make sense of her background, her identity, her relationship to her birth country, and the ways adoption has shaped her life. 🥚

In this compelling compilation, six members of the international adoption community share raw, diverse stories. Together, their experiences illuminate the complexities of connection, culture, and belonging behind adoption’s journey. 🥚

Adopted from Ethiopia by former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and his wife, Jonah Bevin (18) endured years of mistreatment and abandonment. His hard-won right to be heard is a small step toward accountability in a system that too often denies adoptees their rights. 🥚

The Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition calls out ‘safe haven baby boxes’ for what they are — a feel-good cover for family separation and failed policy. Families need resources, not rescue narratives. 🥚

The AAOM Speaker Series supports our 2026 Legislative Advocacy, bringing adoptee voices to policymakers. Your ticket funds Michigan adoptee programs, outreach, education, and free monthly workshops helping adoptees access birth records. 🥚#adopteesky Link to events: tinyurl.com/msn5wm3a

If you are an adoptee born in Michigan and you need help with obtaining your birth info from the state, including petitioning the court for your own original birth certificate, don't miss this free online workshop next Tuesday evening. 🥚

The BBC profiles two women adopted from South Korea and Iran who grew up believing they were American, only to learn they face deportation. The 2000 Child Citizenship Act excluded older adoptees, leaving thousands in lifelong legal limbo. 🥚

Tasmania will compensate mothers impacted by forced adoptions, proof these were crimes, not “acts of love.” Adoptees were victims too, losing family, identity, and truth. Global redress must include adoptees and birth parents alike. 🥚

Join us for an inspiring online conversation with Renee Gelin, President and Co-Founder of Saving Our Sisters, and Katie Burns, Founder of The Family Preservation Project. Proceeds will help our grassroots organization fund legislative outreach happening in early 2026.🥚

A rare acknowledgment from a Christian outlet: South Korea’s adoption system was built on fraud, coercion, and erasure with complicit churches. Christians worldwide should face their role and take accountability through reparative action and centering adoptee voices. 🥚

Authorities rescued 26 trafficked children and arrested an orphanage owner accused of selling them for illegal adoptions. The case exposes a shocking child-trafficking scheme and highlights how weak oversight in orphanages enables the sale of children under the guise of care.🥚

Bethany Christian Services claimed religious discrimination after losing a million-dollar state contract, but court filings show the state cited concerns that the agency charged 305% more than others while delivering 85% fewer services for vulnerable children. 🥚

The rights of survivors of sexual violence and those of adoptees are sometimes positioned in conflict as opposing causes, but this story shows how empathy and openness can bridge that divide, honoring both the rights of adoptees and the healing of survivors.🥚

The bill would require hospitals to offer DNA testing to confirm parentage for unmarried parents. While not mandatory, it raises questions about whether genetic regulation will strengthen biological truth or create new barriers for adoptees. 🥚 www.wtol.com/article/news...

After years of cultural dislocation and longing to connect with her Korean roots, she discovered a sister whose life had taken a very different path. Their emotional reunion in Korea sparked a search for their birth mother and opened a powerful story to the world. 🥚

Claiming that the forced removal of her baby in a mother and baby home caused lifelong harm, the court acknowledged the woman’s vulnerability. The settlement reflects a growing push for accountability, as institutions are being challenged and more cases are under review. 🥚

Pakistan affirms states must prevent abuse and exploitation in adoption. The resolution recognizes the harm of illegal international adoption and the need to support victims, signaling a shift from saving children to centering their rights, identity, and best interests. 🥚

S. Korea’s failure to regulate adoption agencies led to falsified records, erased identities, and family separation. Korean adoptees and birth families continue to lead the fight for truth and justice, offering a powerful example for confronting abuses in the U.S. system.🥚

Avia Weber shares the complexities of growing up as a Chinese adoptee in a white American family, from feeling disconnected from her cultural roots to navigating identity and belonging and reclaiming heritage and self-understanding. 🥚 www.34st.com/article/2025...

Kevin was adopted shortly after birth and spent years searching for his biological family. Through DNA testing, he discovered his father, who had no idea he had a son. After two years of long-distance conversations, they recently met in person for the first time. 🥚

This new book sheds light on the often-overlooked history of both domestic and intercountry adoption in Germany, including adoptions of German children to the U.S., in a step toward greater transparency and understanding for adoptees impacted by these systems. 🥚

The Gauteng Department of Social Development in South Africa is moving to outlaw “baby safes,” arguing they are illegal under existing child protection laws, promote abandonment, and violate a child’s right to family, name, and cultural identity. 🥚

Canada’s Bill C-3 would require internationally adopted citizens to prove a substantial connection through a "connection test" to pass on citizenship, a test not required of biological children and a clear violation of the 1993 Hague Convention. 🥚

Maria, a Latina adoptee born in Chicago, was zip-tied and interrogated by ICE agents who told her she “didn’t look like” her last name. For transracial adoptees, this raises urgent questions about identity, bias, and belonging in the only country they've ever called home. 🥚

Many so-called "pro-life" supporters working to expand safe haven baby boxes with lawmakers also oppose adoptee rights, prioritizing anonymity over access to original birth certificates despite expert-supported calls for transparency in adoption. 🥚

Adoptees, birth families, and officials demand justice as S. Korea confronts systemic abuses in its international adoption system, including falsified records and coerced separations. A push for truth and accountability is reshaping the national reckoning.🥚 www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...

Terrence was born in Canada but adopted by U.S. parents as an infant. Now he can’t return home after being stopped at the border and discovering he was never granted citizenship. Urge your U.S. Representatives to support the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act.🥚

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Indigenous sovereignty and stand with Indigenous adoptees whose histories include forced separation and cultural erasure—realities Indigenous communities have faced both historically and today. We commit to continue advocating for truth, healing, and justice.🥚

For decades, thousands of Chilean children were stolen and illegally adopted abroad by a network of officials and clergy. The Hijos y Madres del Silencio Foundation has reunited over 300 survivors, while courts investigate 1,500+ cases.🥚

The Korean government calls joining the Hague Convention a step toward transparency and child protection, but many adoptees see it as normalizing, not reforming, international adoption. The system still treats children as exportable commodities, not rights-holding individuals.🥚

While it’s a relief these documents have finally surfaced, it’s unacceptable that life-defining records sat for decades in a private home. This discovery is a stark reminder of how fragile adoptees’ access to our own histories remains, and how urgently that must change. 🥚

Whether you're a Korean adoptee reconnecting with your heritage, a member of the broader adoptee community, or someone who appreciates global music and culture, this event offers a meaningful opportunity to gather, reflect, and celebrate resilience through art. 🥚 www.tickettailor.com/events/korea...

This TIME article exposes how safe haven baby boxes bypass child welfare protocols, ignore medical and legal safeguards, and promote a harmful narrative that abandonment is care. It raises serious concerns about the impact on women, infants, adoptees, and society at large. 🥚

A Korean-American adoptee chef in Seoul is serving traditional Chuseok meals to fellow returned adoptees, fostering community and cultural connection during an emotionally difficult time for many adoptees who are in Korea but feel isolated during family-oriented celebrations. 🥚

PAAF is a bipartisan, bicameral bill that replaces the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Please contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives today and urge them to support this critical legislation that ensures all adoptees receive the citizenship they were promised. 🥚