ADOPTOLOGY - Adoption Deconstructed
Dr Barbara Sumner, Byuk Woo Song, Stefanie SebastianEmpowering adopted people through knowledge.
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The Problem With Your Lived Experience
Last week we began to dissect the New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) adoption law reform discussion documents.
Last week we began to dissect the New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) adoption law reform discussion documents.
A New Adoption System for Aotearoa New Zealand
A Service to the Child
A note to the reader: Rather than focusing on individual adoption experiences, this essay concerns the statutory mechanisms and justifications the state uses to annex and replace a legal identity permanently, without...
Incapacity and the Adult Adoptee
In the making of a good law and the universal demand for equality, dignity and autonomy
In January 2026, Te Aka Matua o te Ture | the NZ Law Commission published its final report on adult decision-making capacity law.
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Wait! What did they say?
It's 1984 and adopters are not holding back.
As part of my PhD — a study of the structures, functions, and intent of human adoption, including the social, legislative, and judicial forces that underpin legislation remaining substantively u...
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I am an adoption educator working at the intersection of doctoral scholarship and lived experience. I examine the hidden architecture, cultural fictions and political machinery that shape adoption and identity.
I am adopted from S Korea into the corn fields of rural Illinois in the USA. My adopters were Caucasian & what felt like a total token life until I was about 14. Living in a world of Asian fetishism.
I am a KAD adopted by a Caucasian farming couple in rural Illinois of the USA & naturalized at the age of 7. I've been living in the USA for about 40 years now. I am legally 43.
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