Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition
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Activists, allies, and adoptee rights organizations working in unity to secure equal rights for all Michigan adopted people. michiganadoptees.org
“If they find a safe, loving home for him we’ll be happy.” So the baby went into foster care while the charges were dropped against Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan, owners of Mark Surrogacy, despite them having been found with over 20 children, many of whom were abused. 🥚
Pa. woman tricked into having baby for couple investigated for surrogacy scam
California authorities found 21 children, mostly born to surrogates, in the couple's custody earlier this year. They denied being involved in human trafficking.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“If they find a safe, loving home for him we’ll be happy.” So the baby went into foster care while the charges were dropped against Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan, owners of Mark Surrogacy, despite them having been found with over 20 children, many of whom were abused. 🥚
Ju-rye learned she was never an orphan after a journalist found her hidden past, including time in South Korea’s notorious Brothers Home. A DNA match with her siblings forced her to confront systemic abuses in international adoption and reclaim a childhood that was taken from her. 🥚
‘To know my real name’: Searching for a lost childhood in South Korea
'My identity, my immediate family, my extended family, everything was erased,' says adoptee Ju-rye Hwang.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ju-rye learned she was never an orphan after a journalist found her hidden past, including time in South Korea’s notorious Brothers Home. A DNA match with her siblings forced her to confront systemic abuses in international adoption and reclaim a childhood that was taken from her. 🥚
Every year in the United States, approximately 75,000–100,000 children are adopted through foster care, private domestic adoption, or internationally. The data sheds light on how adoption trends in the U.S. have evolved, and how social policies, economics, and culture play a role. 🥚
How Many Children Are Adopted in the United States - Key Numbers, Decade Trends - North American Community Hub
Adoption in the United States spans private, foster care, and international placements, with decades of shifting trends and key yearly totals.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Every year in the United States, approximately 75,000–100,000 children are adopted through foster care, private domestic adoption, or internationally. The data sheds light on how adoption trends in the U.S. have evolved, and how social policies, economics, and culture play a role. 🥚
In 85' Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, killing about 25,000 people. Hundreds of children disappeared in the chaos, and many are believed to have been adopted abroad through irregular processes. Survivors urge adoptees to provide DNA in hopes of reuniting families. 🥚
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In 85' Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, killing about 25,000 people. Hundreds of children disappeared in the chaos, and many are believed to have been adopted abroad through irregular processes. Survivors urge adoptees to provide DNA in hopes of reuniting families. 🥚
Join host Anna Sarkitova, intercountry adoptee and advocate, for a powerful conversation with Sandi Morgan Caesar, MSW— a community leader whose life and work illuminate the intersections of identity, belonging, and justice in adoption. 🥚
Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational Adoption and Identity
Let's explore how being adopted across borders shapes our identities for a lifetime in Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational
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November 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Join host Anna Sarkitova, intercountry adoptee and advocate, for a powerful conversation with Sandi Morgan Caesar, MSW— a community leader whose life and work illuminate the intersections of identity, belonging, and justice in adoption. 🥚
Once celebrated for adopting Ukrainian children from war‑torn zones, Irina Rudnitskaya has been charged with child‑trafficking, exposing a system of forced transfers, identity erasure, and abuse that includes forced labor. The case possibly tied to internal power struggles.🥚 buff.ly/eNyNOFl
Russian who ‘adopted’ Ukraine’s stolen children jailed
Irina Rudnitskaya, once praised for ‘family values’ and fostering abducted children, is facing up to ten years in prison on trafficking charges
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November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Once celebrated for adopting Ukrainian children from war‑torn zones, Irina Rudnitskaya has been charged with child‑trafficking, exposing a system of forced transfers, identity erasure, and abuse that includes forced labor. The case possibly tied to internal power struggles.🥚 buff.ly/eNyNOFl
U.S. adoptees are being sent to foreign “treatment” facilities where they are abandoned, abused, and left without U.S. oversight or protection. Our nation quietly allows adoptive parents to export “difficult” children, stripped of safety, identity, and justice. 🥚 buff.ly/O0WlPyp
America’s Hidden Pipeline of Exported and Exiled Adoptees that Authorities Are Letting Down
U.S. authorities are failing adoptees overseas; international pressure may be the only path to justice.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
U.S. adoptees are being sent to foreign “treatment” facilities where they are abandoned, abused, and left without U.S. oversight or protection. Our nation quietly allows adoptive parents to export “difficult” children, stripped of safety, identity, and justice. 🥚 buff.ly/O0WlPyp
California Youth Connection is fighting for Axel Pecero, whose case shows how unstable care and undocumented status collide under harsh immigration policies, risking repeated trauma for those already scarred by separation from family. 🥚
Foster Youth Advocate Facing Deportation Under ICE Dragnet
A wide circle of supporters raising money for Axel Pecero’s young son call his arrest and detention ‘heartbreaking.’
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November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
California Youth Connection is fighting for Axel Pecero, whose case shows how unstable care and undocumented status collide under harsh immigration policies, risking repeated trauma for those already scarred by separation from family. 🥚
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. 🥚
"Baby box" opposition surfaces as Iowa adds third site
Norwalk added a baby box last week and Windsor Heights officials are raising money for one.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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. 🥚
Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational Adoption and Identity
Let's explore how being adopted across borders shapes our identities for a lifetime in Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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. 🥚
Experts warn of security risks to America's kids as photos expose those up for adoption
In this Q&A, Ashley Brown, CEO of Selfless Love Foundation, talks about the importance of transforming America's adoption process and protecting the rights of vulnerable children.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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! 🥚
Adoptee MeetUp @ Cadillac Square Winter Markets and Lodge, Sun, Dec 7, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
Connect and build community with other adopted people. 💙 This is a relaxed, inclusive gathering for adoptees of all backgrounds to come together. Whether you are local or
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November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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. 🥚
Keegan Foxx’s emotional journey: From Mississippi to a family reunion in Seoul
Former Mississippi news anchor Keegan Foxx discovered her biological family in South Korea after years of curiosity sparked by the birth of her son.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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 🥚
When Voices Unite: Adoptees, Birth Parents, and the Path Towards Justice.
Conversation with Renee Gelin about the fight for birth parent justice, and how empathy, truth and unity can drive change in U.S. adoption.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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! 🥚
Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational Adoption and Identity
Let's explore how being adopted across borders shapes our identities for a lifetime in Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational
www.eventbrite.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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. 🥚
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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. 🥚
How hard search for biological parents has been for adoptee Park Won-il
고국을 찾아온 57세 국제입양인, 아직도 멀기만 한 '뿌리 찾기'
It's been about a month since the Hague Adoption Convention that seeks to safeguard international adoptions has taken effect here in South Korea.
That being said…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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 🥚
When Voices Unite: Adoptees, Birth Parents, and the Path Towards Justice.
Conversation with Renee Gelin about the fight for birth parent justice, and how empathy, truth and unity can drive change in U.S. adoption.
www.eventbrite.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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. 🥚
Reclaiming Our Place as Immigrants | Adoptees United Inc.
To come out of the fog, as adoptees, is to not only confront the personal myths of adoption but to name the political ones too.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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. 🥚
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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! 🥚
Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational Adoption and Identity
Let's explore how being adopted across borders shapes our identities for a lifetime in Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational
www.eventbrite.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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. 🥚
Trump administration challenges Vermont's LGBTQ policies - Valley News
Vermont's policies supporting LGBTQ foster youth may violate federal law, potentially threatening federal funding, warns Trump administration.
vnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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. 🥚
A Chinese adoptee’s journey through literature
For National Adoption Month, Sara Conway shares some books that have helped her understand herself and shape who she is as a Chinese adoptee.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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. 🥚
The World of Adoption: How We Connect
Broaden your understanding of the international adoption community through the eyes of activists and adoptees
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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. 🥚
Jonah Bevin, adopted son of former KY governor, gets green light from appeals court • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky Court of Appeals rejects former Gov. Matt Bevin's effort to block his estranged son from intervening in his pending divorce case.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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. 🥚
Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition Issues Strong Statement Against Safe Haven Baby Boxes | Stop Baby Boxes Now!
Yesterday, the Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition, in response to a Safe Haven Baby Box installation scheduled for next week in Norwalk, Iowa, issued a press release /policy statement condemning boxes.…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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. 🥚