Recent Examples on the WebJen Kim, a Korean American adoptee, is a production coordinator and manager in the film industry.—Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024 Reporter Char Adams dives into the ethics of transracial adoption and talks to both white adoptive parents and Black adoptees about their experiences.—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024 South Korea has the world’s largest diaspora of intercountry adoptees, with more foreign adoptions overall than any other nation.—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023 Can Isiah’s views on racial justice, colored by his perspective as an adoptee raised by a white family, survive the rise of Black Lives Matter?—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Under adoption laws, an adoptee legally becomes a permanent member of the applicant's family.—CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023 The case involved a challenge to a 1978 law, known as the Indian Child Welfare Act, aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes.—Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023 Among the attendees of Boric’s speech on Saturday were a dozen Chilean adoptees organized by Nos Buscamos, an NGO that investigates cases of child trafficking by the Pinochet regime and connects the living relatives of nonconsensual adoptions.—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023 Florence Fisher, an adoptee who spent decades searching for her birth parents and then spent another half century fighting to open adoption records for millions of others, died on Oct. 1 in Brooklyn.—Clay Risen, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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