September 30, 2010
If you have adopted transracially you have adopted across race, adopted a child who is a different race than you. The first step in helping your child is to understand that you cannot “share” your child’s culture or race.
What you can do is make sure your child has the connection to the communities from which [...]
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September 21, 2010
The basic trauma of every single adoption is loss. No matter how young a child is when they join their adoptive family, they have suffered loss—of their birth mother, birth history, and possibly birth father, birth siblings and culture. Loss brings about grief and for many, depending on the situation and child, other issues.
One of [...]
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