A couple of years later, she joined Also-Known-As, or A.K.A.—a new organization based in New York that had been started by a friend of hers, Hollee McGinnis, to create a community of international adoptees.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/10/living-in-adoptions-emotional-aftermath

Adoption agencies, governed by board members close to the military leaders, were notorious for aggressive child-gathering activities and falsified paperwork that manipulated children’s origins as they raced to send more adoptees abroad.

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/fox-world/south-korean-adoption-agency-ordered-to-compensate-adoptee-for-mishandling-his-adoption-to-the-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=south-korean-adoption-agency-ordered-to-compensate-adoptee-for-mishandling-his-ado

To older adoptees, too anxious about hurting their adoptive parents to tell them that they read blogs about adoption, much less to search for their birth parents, this was astonishing.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/10/living-in-adoptions-emotional-aftermath