Given Away
Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories
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Narrated by:
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Jeena Yi
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Allison Hiroto
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James Chen
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Cindy Kay
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Glenn Morey
About this listen
In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by the Korean War. Through a special act of Congress, they were authorized to adopt eight of these children - which marked the advent of international adoption. Since that time, there have been over 170,000 children adopted out of Korea to more than 30 countries. And the practice of international adoption has expanded across the globe, with over a million children being adopted out of their countries of origin.
What happens when children’s lives are re-set by adoption? When they’re sent to new countries to grow up with families of a different race, a different language and culture? How have Korean adoptees navigated early trauma, family, and their own identity?
Korean adoptee Glenn Morey and his wife, Julie Morey, spent six years interviewing 100 Korean adoptees from around the world. This stunning Audible Original is comprised of 15 first-person accounts - an international journey through the personal memories and experiences of abandonment, relinquishment, orphanages, aging out, and inter-country adoption from South Korea. Together, they are a triumph of resilience and survival. To appreciate these extraordinary lives, you need not be adopted or an adoptive parent. You need only be human.
©2020 Glenn Morey and Julie Morey (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.What listeners say about Given Away
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- Robyn
- 02-10-2022
Poignant
An interesting and very sensitive look at adoption via interviews with adults who were adopted out of Korea as babies or children. Despite the obvious connecting themes, all experiences are different. For the majority who grow up within biological families, these first person accounts provide important insight into the pluses and minuses of adoption.
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- FD
- 23-07-2024
Insightful!
So interesting hearing all the stories of children who started off in the same country then having different lives depending on the country and family they ended up in. And also hearing from the children who didn’t get the same opportunities, and even those who did but didn’t necessarily have the best life. I love that each of their stories was authentic and told by themselves.
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