By SHELTON BUMGARNER
Marmot’s Hole Guest Blogger
While this story is about Chinese girls being adopted, it does touch on Korea some. And, given what a hot topic such adoptions continue to be, it’s worth a read.
Nancy Kim Parsons, a filmmaker who was adopted from Korea, is making a documentary comparing the experiences of adults who had been adopted a generation ago from Korea with the young children adopted from China.
South Korea was the first country from which Americans adopted in significant numbers, and it is still among the leaders in international adoptions, along with Russia, Guatemala, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, India and Ethiopia. The experiences of those adopted from Korea have provided useful lessons for families adopting from China.
Hollee McGinnis, 34, the policy director at the Donaldson institute, was adopted from South Korea by white parents and was raised in Westchester County. Ten years ago, she started an adult support group, called Also Known As, which now also mentors children adopted from China.
“College was when I really began trying to understand what other people saw in my face,” she said. “Before then I didn’t really understand what it meant to be Asian.”
Be sure to read the rest on your own.
