Adoption Trafficking Awareness Event July 20

Join Intercountry Adoptees: "What is Adoption Trafficking?"

Lacey Library,

Saturday, July 20th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

500 College Street SE, Lacey, WA 98503-1240

SPEAKERS:

Vance Twins

The Vance twins have been interviewed on television, radio, in newspapers and given presentations in the U.S., Canada and in Seoul, South Korea.

Janine’s Limited Edition book:

The Search for Mother Missing: A peek inside international adoption gives an account of the twins journey to the 2004 Korean Adoptee Gathering and is exclusively available at their website. www.vancetwins.com

Peter Dodds

 

Speaker and author of Outer Search Inner Journey the first book written by a foreign born adoptee on the subject of intercountry adoption. 

An international speaker, Peter has delivered keynote addresses at New Zealand's National Adoption Conference and Toronto's Adoption Experience 2012. He has been interviewed on television, radio and the internet. www.peterfdodds.com 

 

 

Giving the families left behind a voice in the matter

 

• Raising global consciousness on the hidden side of adoption

• Sharing an enlightened and heartfelt perspective on adoption issues based on real experiences

• Offering preventative and alternative solutions for an industry currently in flux

• Protecting vulnerable families from a lucrative industry that targets the child and abandons and exploits the mothers

 

 

 

Adoption Reality: International Adoption #NAAM

Produced by my friend Peter Dodds, a foreign orphan adopted by American parents, this powerful and moving video illuminates the human rights abuses embedded in international adoption.
http://youtu.be/LJlnfkRtBX4

You can follow Peter's work on YouTube as well! I did!  Trace

Peter Dodds (views on International adoption) & who is Rita Simon?

In this eye opening interview, author Peter Dodds who was adopted from an orphanage in Germany, describes the harm caused when children are uprooted from their native countries and cultures.
I did read Peter's book "Outer Search\Inner Journey" a few years ago when there were so very few adoptee memoirs. What he says in this interview is what I hear many adoptees say.   Was this the same Rita Simon who published the study:  "Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories?" YES! Simon was not talking on this youtube interview... but this Jewish author is very pro-adoption! ......Trace

Rita Simon, University Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society... recently published her 63rd book in these fields. Area of Expertise: Transracial adoption, history of women's rights, abortion, rape, women and crime, civil rights and liberties in Israel, U.S. immigration, jury system, insanity defense, death penalty, impact of mass media on public opinion.
Rita Simon is a well-known authority on transracial and intercountry adoption, immigration, justice, and women’s issues.
Her books include: In Their Own Voices; The Case for Transracial Adoption; The Jury System: Its Role in American Society; The Insanity Defense; The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion, and Immigration; Adoption, Race, and Identity; Women’s Movements in America; Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, and Thieves: Women’s Roles in America; The World Over: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment; Immigration: The World Over; and The Crime Women Commit and the Punishments They Receive.  She served on the Title IX commission.

"Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories" : Simon's study focuses on the lives of Native American transracial adoptees and their struggle to establish a healthy sense of cultural identity, while being raised in non-Native homes. The 20 participants in this study focus on what methods their adoptive parents used or, in some cases, did not use to help them establish their own sense of cultural identity. In the end, most participants agreed that adoptive parents can help their adoptive child establish a healthy sense of cultural identity by nurturing a connection between their child and their child's tribal community.