Boon Young Han, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, stands for a portrait at the offices of KoRoot, an advocacy organization for international adoptees from South Korea, on Thursday, March ...

It’s funny how a photograph can stick in your mind. Maybe the stillness of the image gives it time to sink in, like dye, and become part of you. One image that sticks in my mind is of a White woman, ...

Korean adoptees worldwide are grappling with a devastating possibility: they were not truly orphans, but may have been made into orphans. For decades, adoptees were told they were “abandoned”, ...

Introduction : a historical overview of American adoption / E. Wayne Carp -- A good home : indenture and adoption in nineteenth-century orphanages / Susan L. Porter -- Buildind a nation, building a ...

You could say I grew up not knowing who I was. I knew that I’d been born in an Indianapolis hospital in 1968, and that my parents had adopted me when I was 10 days old. That was it. I didn’t know who ...

In March, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) released its report on the country’s international adoption system. After a three-year investigation, the committee found evidence that ...