From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Please Take Your Rose-Colored Glasses Off

April 29, 2010

You probably don’t want to hear this because it is an uncomfortable truth.
While there are many well-adjusted adults who were adopted, there are also some angry, ticked-off adults who were adopted. And they’re busy venting their feelings in the cyber world: angry they were adopted, raised in a white family/community, saw themselves as white, had difficulty adjusting to [...]

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Ready for “Phase Two?”

April 26, 2010

When your child first joined you, you most likely had a support system in place, for example, something along the lines of a group of parents introduced through your agency or a network of families like yours. You may have been introduced through common friends. You shared what was going on with your child, bounced [...]

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Stories

April 22, 2010

How does your child see his or her adoption? What does he or she know or not know? What will he or she think about their life as they gain knowledge of what occurred when they were infants, toddlers, or children?
One of the best ways to help your child with information about his or her [...]

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Transracial Adoption Advocacy

April 19, 2010

Advocacy starts with you, with a simple small act. You are but one grain of sand that, as added to others, changes the landscape, the pattern of behavior over time. Actions speak louder than words, but words are good too. Here are a few grains:

Seek to value all diversity, not just your child’s.
Take a deep [...]

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Under the Microscope

April 15, 2010

Good news is not news. Bad news is. And last week some of the worst broke, making headlines and adding fodder to the less than stellar coverage adoption receives. A young boy was returned to his birth country by his adoptive mother, part of the note read, “I no longer wish to parent this child.”
My [...]

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Gotcha Day

April 12, 2010

Family Day, Forever Family Day, Adoption Day. There are probably other names for the day that commemorates the day your child joined your family.
You may or may not celebrate such a day. And if you do, what does this day mean to your child? Does it mark the day they became separated from their biological identity?
I ask because [...]

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