This blog article shares the author’s experiences with creating trust and love with her spouse. She lists ten choices that adoptees can make in their relationship to create stronger relationships. This resource will benefit adoptees who are addressing their trust and attachment issues with their partner.
This article explains how people’s relationships are affected if they’re adopted. It explains how adoptees often fear rejection, abandonment, and change or have low self-esteem. It also encourages adoptees to seek therapy in order to better understand themselves and their relationships.
This article is about the red flags that adoptees should avoid when searching for a partner. Every adoptee and partnership is different, so this article doesn’t provide a very nuanced understanding of relationships. However, this is a good beginner-friendly resource for anybody starting to date and seeking a healthy, long-term relationship.
This blog article shares the author’s experiences about how she overcame trust issues with her spouse. The center of the story is about how she worked through the decision to give her husband access to her medical information. This is a good resource for adoptees who are figuring out how and why to remedy trust issues with their spouse.
This is a short, narrative story about an adoptee’s experience meeting her birth mother. This story will benefit adoptees who are considering conducting a birth family search. The author cites that her narrative is not meant to be discouraging, but realistic.
This group shares adoptees’ stories in order to help empower other adoptees, empower their self-growth, and change the narrative of adoption. It has resources for all adoptees, including Chinese adoptees.
This interest group provides support for international adoptees. They discuss racism, identity, and birth family searches. It’s based in the Netherlands and is for all Dutch-speaking Chinese and Taiwanese adoptees.
This is a private Facebook group created by CCI (China’s Children International) for LGBTQ+ Chinese adoptees. It’s a network to discuss issues and topics relating to Chinese adoptees and the LGBTQ+ community.
This is a report that discusses discrimination against LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents. It explains how religious exemptions allow agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ+ parents. In turn, that reduces the number of families available to adopt, overburdens the child welfare system, and hurts the best interests of children.
This is a online Facebook group is a safe space for LGBTQ+ Asians. Group members are encouraged to share their experiences and media which discuss the issues that LGBTQ+ Asians face. It’s a private group with 84 members and is moderated for friendly, appropriate posts.
