International adoptees are not an economic product, not a problem to be solved, not a reflection of one’s Christian goodness nor a solution to one’s desire to build a family.
when I was almost 6 months old, I recently made myBefore and during that trip, I waded through all the information I could access about my adoption and found glaring evidence of the transactional nature of my beginnings — ample proof of myself as a product.
That’s how I have felt at times — like an export, a package someone ordered that was shipped overseas. I’ve always had a sense of existential dislocation, as if I belonged somewhere else, or nowhere at all. Growing up in Las Cruces, I never learned any Korean history, language, or culture. The racial dissonance of being Korean in a white family in a white community proved immense and unrelenting. I did not meet or see another Asian person until I was in the sixth grade.
My personal history is a product of the Korean War, which, decades before my birth, drove the first waves of adoption from the country, stoked demand for Korean babies, and established an infrastructure for international adoption.In 1955, driven by a missionary fervor to save the world’s orphans, a Baptist couple in Oregon named Bertha and Harry Holt pushed the passage of a bill that authorized them to adopt eight Korean War orphans, where a previous federal law limited families to two.
The following year, the Holts founded Holt International to systematize foreign adoptions. Now, a modern multistory building and an entire subway station in Seoul are dedicated to the Holts’ legacy, and
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