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The following is a message from one of the moderators of the Adoptive Parents Viet Nam (APV) yahoogroup…
Hi all:
The list-owner and moderators of Adoptive Parents – Vietnam (APV)
list-serve have come up with a project that we are very excited
about, and we need to ask for the participation of adult adoptees
from Vietnam for it to work. Adoptive parents very much want to make
the right decisions on a variety of subjects for their children, and
we value the opinions of adult adoptees on these topics very highly.
We would very much like to encourage adult adoptees from Vietnam to
take on, and that if a-parents have difficulty hearing certain
truths, etc., the adult adoptee may become the victim of flames, be
called “angry,” etc., etc. This has had the effect of discouraging
adult adoptee participation on many list-serves in the past.
We don’t want any of this to happen at APV, so we have been trying to
brainstorm how to tap into the vast storehouse of experience adult
adoptees from Vietnam have to offer those of us who have children
adopted from Vietnam so that our children can benefit from their
experience.
Here’s the proposition.
We are going to create a special library in the “files” section of
the APV database for adult adoptee writings.
We invite all adult adoptees from Vietnam to send us their
experiences, opinions, dreams, ideas, etc. – good or bad, in any
form – either on topics they think adoptive parents should know about
or in response to particular queries. Authors may contribute only
once, or hopefully more than once – depending on their time, etc.
They may contribute anonymously or have their work attributed to
their name (their choice). My only request is that those who want to
contribute anonymously would provide their name to me for my records,
but I will not release it. Our position is that the author’s work is
their own property, and not the property of APV. It could be
reproduced anywhere the author likes.
We hope to provide a forum for adult adoptees from Vietnam to express
their ideas on things they think are important for us to know and as
a resource for families of younger adoptees from Vietnam to draw on
as they parent their children.
So if you are an adult adoptee from Vietnam (adult defined as over
18), please get in touch with me at collinudell@hotmail.com We can
dialogue about what you would like to write about or if you would
like me to provide you with various topics.
We would appreciate your participation so much! We want to learn
from you so that our kids will be the beneficiaries.
Thank you for considering this invitation, and please feel free to re-
distribute it on any other list-serves, in any private emails you
might forward to someone who might be interested or who might know of
someone who is interested, etc.
All the best,
Collin O’Connor Udell
mom to a son from Vietnam and a daughter from China
APV moderator
