More policy support needed for single mothers to save family
By Sara Salansky Sara SalanskyThere are approximately 200,000 Korean adoptees who have been placed in multiple countries, and approximately 170,000 of them have been residing in the United States since the late 1950's, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.As Korean adoptees with a nationality other than Korean, there are internal conflicts, pain and trauma that consist of the sense of abandonment ― abduction in some cases ― which brings about a loss of identity, acceptance, sense of belonging, and culture that exists within them for decades. I do not claim to be an expert and these are what seem to rise to the top when researching the struggles Korean adoptees experience while simply existing in a foreign environment and not with their birth families. Adoptees are ostracized because they are a product of a situation that wasn't respectable in Korean culture. These children lost the right to a normal Korean life the minute they were conceived… they never asked to be adopted, they were never given a choice to stay in their country of origin or be sent away, they were
