An Australian Adoptee Uncovers Her Roots In Vietnam

[@sez2863]

Wow, this was so emotional to watch. I felt like crying when Sophie was greeted by the older lady in the village

[@stephenc2481]

My Huong is a beautiful and brave human being. Best of luck with her project.

[@leannestrong1000]

I want to adopt someday. A big reason why I want to adopt is because I want to give a good, stable, loving home to a child in need. Why would I want to bring another child into the world when there are so many children out there who are in need of a safe, stable, loving home. Another big reason why I want to adopt is because I want my children to understand that family doesn't mean looking like each other. It means loving each other and caring for each other.

[@lesleymitchell7607]

Leanne Strone if you are serious about this, then I suggest that you first read the book The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier and join some adoptee FaceBook groups and read and really hear them. It's not all rainbows and unicorns for the adoptee.

[@dangda-ww7de]

adopt a viet kid will cost about 20k to 30k.

[@redx1106]

I don’t trust adoptions especially foreign adoptions it’s mostly a scam human trafficking business so is mail order brides an excuse and cover for all trafficking

[@valeriemacfair2205]

It's not the same thing at all, apart from the biological implications.

[@isorokudono]

Coward.

[@nataliapalovcak9379]

Thank you for sharing....Thank you for caring for children that need parents and the love of adult children that were adopted. I hope you find your birth mother!!!

[@MichaelPhongMitchell]

When I returned to my motherland in 2005, I had wondered about every single woman in her 60s or 70s if she were my birthmother. I also wondered if any of the girls was my sister and any of the boys was my brother. I could have passed my birthmother and not know it. I even wondered about the little kids if any of them were related to me. I could identify with all the orphans in the orphanage and Huong was right that all those kids needed a family. I also knew how Sophie felt, which was something that adoptees have. It was very emotional for me.

[@hoabinh6509]

Vietnam has a program to look for relatives, or missing people. The program name is "Như Chưa Hề Có Cuộc Chia Ly". This program is free. Please go to google name and contact the program that search for relatives. Good luck

[@markf.erickson6283]

Same

[@MichaelPhongMitchell]

I found out the hospital where my birthmother used to live or might still live near. I have realized that I can take a blood DNA test to find her. My birthmother must have given blood at the hospital. If so, the hospital can run a DNA test. :)

[@SharonMcauley-h1w]

All the very best to you 🙏♥️

[@markf.erickson6283]

As a fellow Vietnamese adoptee, I was very moved by this story. I also feel that the Australians are able to better accept the complexity of the situation than what I see portrayed amongst the Americans and our media.

[@may_laytrucker3127]

Really broked my heart and seeing sorrow and little joy on their faces. I hope Sofie finds her mom also !

[@ericamary6778]

Not sure if you know, but My Huong's "mother" there, was not her real mother! What a twist!

[@Diva_Bella]

I hope she finds her birth mother it's very emotional

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[@EternallyGod]

Nathan Batten No one wants to adopt a disabled child, no one wants to have a disabled child born of their own even. You need to wake up to reality and not what you think in your head is right but what actually really happens in the world.

[@SABRINA.ARMY.BTS.]

+Kirk Wilson I know a few people who adopted disabled children, some with minor disabilities some with major disabilities, my neighbors son is now 10 years old and he can´t talk, walk, feed him self but his smile would light up every room so why not every child is lovable

[@mareekettle2548]

sabrina k most of the Chinese American etc adoptions are for what is known as special needs children missing damaged limbs,,SD blind deaf MS but they are adopted by families who know these concerns and are prepared to support them through sometimes many medical interventions

[@kieronbevan7489]

this stuff just ends up with me crying

[@Joker-Leto]

Well.. you are Vietnamese regardless.. but educated in Australian culture... I was born in Latin America but raised in US for 50 years. I am Latin America I can't say different.. just because I lived in US for 50 years does not make me North American..

[@lifeeasier3462]

This war tore so many families apart. Siblings argued over ideologies. In the end, it was only the women and children who suffered.

[@VanceTwins]

Why not support the original/natural mother? Instead of taking from the poor and giving to the rich why not support a mother and her child so they can stay together instead of separating the natural family? Each IA costing around $40,000+ could go a long way if used to help a poor community, no wonder the adoption industry wants it to continue. It ultimately makes the rich country richer and the poor country poorer by taking away their children. IA seems to think that the rich deserves children more, but when do you draw the line? When 250,000 children are gone missing from Vietnam?

[@supermedia7978]

Jeanette it is a business. Children are bought like chocolate...

[@lesleymitchell7607]

It's apparently all about providing a child for a family, not providing a family for a child.

[@pershop4950]

Because people will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a kid. They would rather it be a kid they can have some say in keeping, rather than some other kid. Before you can see how feasible your idea is, think about your own feelings for helping some local kid. If you cannot picture yourself supporting him and his family financially for decades, then you can get the idea of why adoption agencies do not just solicit for money for parents and kids, but instead, offer the parent some reprieve in having to raise the kid.

[@eikout4910]

Thank you for sharing your story .

[@mrnarason]

I was feeling a bit depressed before watch this, not anymore

[@margaretsilsby2585]

+Victor P. omg thinking i'm trying to do that minimize my depression by perspective of remembering people who might be worse so kick my own ass that;s not working acceptance

[@rexaa5465]

It would be nice if teens can be adopted too.

[@SWAPNESH23]

god bless her!!

[@purezentity6582]

WARs ,cause pain and suffering. NO MORE WAR PLEASE!!!

[@RobinMadfisherman]

Nicely done Video. Id like to find this orphanage. I live in Viet Nam with my wife and would like her and I to go see for ourselves. Where is it?

[@stephenc2481]

the orphanage is in Long Hai, near Vung Tau. If you are in Long Hai, I am sure the locals will show you where it is located.

[@career5690]

Did you ever go there?

[@LindaTran88]

Any update on Sophie by any chance?

[@vtecpreludevtec]

A,NZ,troops were based in VungTao

[@nephildevil]

They may not have any luxuries at all, but they do have a primitive sense of fulfillment instead of a cold dark, and gnawing void in me :/

[@stanleymiddleton5664]

Vung Tau & Long Hai!

[@cedricksamaniego9146]

Beautiful

[@DrJG9]

Mothers! 13:03

[@lonelytraveler541]

Mothers and their sacrifices.

[@DrJG9]

Poor kids! 4:30

[@AlemshaTanerEmur]

That’s the damage USA did

[@ann.nguyen1057]

Hi fellow, remember all mother is always loved her child and for a seasons they must gave away her child to go to America or Australia the baby could have a better life than live and future. you could understand when you lived under the communist party

[@oceanaakaddharstagh2801]

Adoption helps some unwanted children. Every woman should be responsible for her own child. Many children end up in orphanage because of irresponsibility. Please don't have sex if you don't have enough money to raise a baby.

[@Reddylion]

Oceana AkaddHarstagh WELL SAID.

[@OliDaChilla]

Oceana AkaddHarstagh What about people that dont have access to contraception or were raped?

[@oceanaakaddharstagh2801]

OliDaChilla It would be nice if every country has planned program for raped women such as legal abortion and financial aid to a mother if it is already too late.Regarding contraception: Before a man and a woman get married, they should attend family planning classes. BTW, a wife doesn't need to take a pill as long as her husband knows how to ejaculate outside.

[@OliDaChilla]

Oceana AkaddHarstagh We are not talking about the first world here. People dont have the money, time or opportunity to go to "family planning classes". You have no idea how these people live so stop telling them how. "BTW, a wife doesn't need to take a pill as long as her husband knows how to ejaculate outside." That is indeed bad advice because one can still become pregnant through pre-cum. Pfuuui!

[@oceanaakaddharstagh2801]

OliDaChilla Why asked in the first place then?

[@beverleylumb8048]

They give up the kids because they are too poor but why don't they think about that before they get pregnant and stop having the kids

[@DrJG9]

Lennie is cuter 3:30 than sum of his parents, as happens quite often!

[@jayneforster5677]

I had a feeling Mi hoong was mixed !

[@Reddylion]

sad world

[@LindaTran88]

My Huong looks a little like Viet American singer, Phi Nhung

[@aviation1337]

Rip

[@beverleylumb8048]

Yes and how long before they just have kids because they can sell them abroad. Yes I mean sell them because for all the good intentions you won't be able to prevent that they will be selling 1 to pay for the others so they just have more kids to do this. It won't be adoption of the ones already here but ordering new kids to be adopted because they want young babies

[@travelpoint4486]

Please, what is the name of that orphanage?

[@stephenc2481]

It is in Long Hai, near Vung Tau. So, if you are there, the locals can show you where it is.

[@DrJG9]

7:41 Le My Huong looks much less oriental than Sophie, but so do some of the children, perhaps it is Vietnamese characteristics.

[@dt4654]

Jyotsna Gokhale because she was conceived with an australian soldier?

[@DrJG9]

MaoMao Jjang Probably, but my comment was made as I viewed, and before her lineage was referred to. In China not everyone has the same typical oriental characteristics, and quite possibly Southeast Asia has variations too, which one would see if one were extensively familiar. India has every possible variation, in almost every region too, and only by being familiar one could know.

[@diouranke]

Jyotsna Gokhale her father was probably an American soldier, many of them were adopted also

[@LindaTran88]

Jyotsna Gokhale her father was an Australian solider as said in the clip

[@LindaTran88]

diouranke her father was an Australian solider as said in the clip

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool

[@brucelee5576]

No worries people who 💯 % white stay in Vietnam too long turn Vietnamese.

[@brucehorner936]

Was a dna test taken?

[@vanessalam1875]

Ava Svara posted this: mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/operation-babylift-vietnam-war-adoptee-finds-false-birth-mother/10359158?nw=0