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The primary goal of 325KAMRA is to DNA test Korean families who lost children to international adoption. Our aim is to provide Korean Adoptees with their true biological stories and family medical histories. We also hope to reunite Korean adoptees with biological family members when possible.
“I feel a lot of gratitude. I’ve done a lot of things, but that was the one thing on my bucket list,” said Kim, who is now a founding member of the U.S. non-profit organization 325Kamra, which seeks to reunite families through DNA. “That was the inspiration for searching.” Katherine Kim, Secretary of 325KAMRA, Inc.
Monte Haines and Adam Crapser’s Adoption Story compiled by the Vance Twins
There’s a sense of incompleteness….one choice could transform many.
Want to know why so many Korean adoptees disapprove of the practice and have banded together to fight for their rights to blood-family and adoption documents?
The truth of adoption is finally unveiled here and presented with private and personal accounts. At last, after sixties years of adoption profiteering, these narratives paint a true portrait of adoption–from the back door–by those most affected.
This collection, compiled by Korean adoptees, serves as a tribute to transracially adopted people sent all over the world. It has been hailed to be the first book to give Korean adoptees the opportunity to speak freely since the pioneering of intercountry adoption after the Korean War.
If you were adopted, you are not alone. These stories validate the experiences of everyone who has been ridiculed or outright abused but has found the will to survive, thrive, and share their tale.
Adopted people all over the world are reclaiming the right to truth and access to birth documents.
This book is meant to educate the public on human rights violations. It is also a living testament to why previous “orphans” do not endorse the Evangelical Orphan Movement.
Those who work in the human rights field, are whistleblowers or are adopted will see the value of this book. Caution: Those who insist on adoring the industry and want to continue to profit from the child market will not comprehend the full value of this book. They would do better to read an adoption fiction or fantasy book written for children by an adoptive parent.
The adoptee-rights community refuses to advertise for adoption facilitators. We also refuse to promote the commercialization of children, nor do we profit from the industry. The insistence that adopted people ignore their human rights and stay “positive” dismisses the crimes against families and children and has resulted in the continuation of profits over people. Because few have heard the voices of adoptees from Asia, Africa is now targeted and hailed as the next best harvesting ground.
After years of forced “positivity” led by adoption profiteers, it is time to be real. These are real stories from real adopted people–no longer serving the adoption pioneers’ fanciful wishes and advertising campaigns.
Read Adoptionland before you pay adoption agency fees. These courageous narratives could save you tens of thousands of dollars or prevent you from obtaining a child unethically. Be the first to read these narratives and join the ever-expanding Adoption Truth and Transparency Worldwide Network. It’s never too late to walk in awareness!
Adoptionland: From Orphan to Activist Compiled by the Vance Twins
This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird’s eye view of adoption from domestic, intercountry, and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from the Baby Scoop Era, a modern-day mother who almost lost her child to adoption, and ends with the experience of an adoption investigator from Against Child Trafficking. These stories are usually abandoned by the very industry that professes to work for the “best interest of children,” “child protection,” and for families. However, according to adopted people who were scattered across nations as children, these represent typical human rights issues that have been ignored for too long. For many years, adopted people have just dealt with such matters alone, not knowing that all of us—as a community—have a great deal in common.
To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, visit here.
