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Congress enacted the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 to ensure that international adoptees acquired U.S, citizenship more or less automatically, but the law fails to cover an unknown number of adoptees (somewhere between 18,000 to 75,000) who were already adults when the law passed.
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Time, 15 May 2025
For transracial adoption specifically, adoptees say more open and honest conversations about the process are long overdue.
—David Oliver, USA Today, 9 May 2025
In 2008, at the age of 5, she was brought to the US by Dyan and Gary Ciccone, a New Hampshire couple with ties to an area adoption agency focused on Russian adoptees.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
According to the American Psychological Association, international adoptees can be more vulnerable to some mental-health difficulties compared with non-adoptees, including eating disorders, depression, and anxiety disorders.
—Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
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Time, 15 May 2025
For transracial adoption specifically, adoptees say more open and honest conversations about the process are long overdue.
—David Oliver, USA Today, 9 May 2025
In 2008, at the age of 5, she was brought to the US by Dyan and Gary Ciccone, a New Hampshire couple with ties to an area adoption agency focused on Russian adoptees.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
According to the American Psychological Association, international adoptees can be more vulnerable to some mental-health difficulties compared with non-adoptees, including eating disorders, depression, and anxiety disorders.
—Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Adoptee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adoptee. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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adoptee
noun
adopt·ee
ə-ˌdäp-ˈtē 
: a person who is adopted
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