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Do You Have a Case of White Privilege?

May 11, 2010

Are you parenting transracially? I am. And the older my kids have become, the more aware I am of how we are seen outside of our immediate family, how my children are perceived and treated.
Parenting transracially can be an additional layer of adoptive parenting and it is something you need to examine. White parents have [...]

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Blood and Adoptive Relations

May 7, 2010

Depending on the child, the understanding of what “blood relations” means happens around the ages of six to eight. My kids began to ask very specific questions about how we were all related during these ages. With these questions came a better understanding of the differences between birth and adoption. My family is of blood [...]

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What is the Culture of Your Family?

April 5, 2010

When asked this question people often use definitions of heritage, ethnicity, or race. Composition. But I’m not talking about these.
What I’m talking about is the collective “mindset” of your family. Implicit and explicit behavior, attitudes, ideas, and perspectives, and the values attached to them and how you are interconnected to one another.
How does what is [...]

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