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That makes China the hardest target for adoptees seeking birth families.
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Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
But commissioners were divided over the very problem that prompted the adoptees' petition: a lack of accurate documentation.
—Se Eun Gong, NPR, 6 May 2025
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.
—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
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Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
But commissioners were divided over the very problem that prompted the adoptees' petition: a lack of accurate documentation.
—Se Eun Gong, NPR, 6 May 2025
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.
—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
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“Adoptee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adoptee. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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adoptee
noun
adopt·ee
ə-ˌdäp-ˈtē 
: a person who is adopted
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