‘What if abandoning a child was the greatest act of love this world has ever known?’ This statement was made by Victor Alexeyev, one of five young adult adopted people, who spoke at the Coming of Age session at the Redefining Family conference in Auckland. Victor, along with Alex Gilbert, Alexander Kuch, Katya Murray and Voichita […]

Adoption is forever. Over the decades there have been few days when I haven’t thought about my adoption and its impact on my life. Adoption stays with you always. Consequently, you do need to make provision for it, make sense of it, or find peace with it, otherwise it is likely to prod, nag, itch, […]

Ipsify is about identity, connection, belonging, family and living life. Discovering who you are and where you fit in. With yourself. With family. To find a place in the world. For adopted people, and those conceived through donor conception, surrogacy or other forms of medical engineering, the concepts – and lived reality – of identity, […]