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Helena creates a circle with white fabric and invites different groups of people in, starting with adoptees.
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Arin Yoon, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its draconian one-child policy forced many families to abandon children, especially girls and babies with disabilities.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
These children, like most Chinese adoptees in recent years, are believed to have special needs.
—Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
On a trip to South Korea, Danish Korean adoptee Mai Soon Young Øvlisen, 41, heard Korean traditional music for the first time.
—Arin Yoon, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
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Arin Yoon, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its draconian one-child policy forced many families to abandon children, especially girls and babies with disabilities.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
These children, like most Chinese adoptees in recent years, are believed to have special needs.
—Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
On a trip to South Korea, Danish Korean adoptee Mai Soon Young Øvlisen, 41, heard Korean traditional music for the first time.
—Arin Yoon, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Adoptee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adoptee. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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adoptee
noun
adopt·ee
ə-ˌdäp-ˈtē 
: a person who is adopted
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