The Cross-Cultural or Trans-National Adoption requires Adoptive Parents that can deal with all the issues. In the past there were not many guidelines for Parents adopting from other countries. Did you have similar issues, and where are YOU in coming to find your Adoption Identity? This DVD is something that hopefully would help NEW Adoptive Parents to help their own “blended” families cope with the complex issues of This Thing of Ours-Adoption.
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About We Can Do Better Adoption Stories from Adopted the MovieIn the companion DVD, We Can Do Better, a who’s-who of the adoption community offers wisdom and advice to help today’s adoptive families. With 30-minute sessions on clarifying parental intentions, establishing identity, parenting a mixed-race family, grieving, and navigating the politics of adoption, We Can Do Better cuts right to the heart of the issues deeply embedded in the rewarding, but complex journey of adoption. See below for details on each of the five sessions and links to watch excerpts.
This 20-minute session includes interviews with adoptive parents and adoption psychologists and social workers about what drives people to adopt. Whether it’s due to infertility, a calling from God, a desire to have a particular gender or race of child, or a combination of reasons, parents and experts encourage pre-adoptive individuals or couples to honestly assess their intentions so they can learn how to put the child’s needs first.
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Session II: Parenting the Adopted Child
This 35-minute session includes interviews with adoptive parents, psychologists and pediatricians about some of the unique issues adopted children may face including Attachment Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, developmental delays, and grief–over the loss of a birth parent and/or birth culture. The session also looks at how biological and adopted siblings interact.
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This 25-minute session asks adoptive parents to think about whether they really can, and should be, colorblind when it comes to their non-white, adopted child. Interviews with adoptees, parents and psychologists reveal the importance of addressing both race and culture with the child, acknowledging that racism and stereotypes still exist, believing children when they report instances of racial prejudice, and realizing that children often won’t tell their parents about everything that happens at school.
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Session IV: Identity for the Transracial Adoptee
This 25-minute session features interviews with adult adoptees who stress the importance of parents helping their children develop a strong sense of racial identity and self-esteem. Suggestions include bringing other adult people of color into their lives as role models, seeking out schools, communities or social situations where whites are not a strong majority, and understanding the struggles and confusion transracial adoptees might have. The session also includes advice and explanations from psychologists about why a strong racial identity is crucial for transracial adoptees.
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Go over these videos, discuss them with your own Adoptive Siblings or the entire family. It may be that you are now in your late teens or twenties, thirties, etc. but it is never too late to PROCESS what has been, and work through how you were affected.
What is important is the NOW, how you can take information and find healing for yourself, your Adoptive family relationships, even how you deal with life in your present marriage.
Don’t wait too long, or you will be like the Korean War Baby…looking backwards on so many failures of relationships, plans, desires.
Aiigoo. Too late, Too late. Seek understanding, find healing. For your own sake, for the lives of those you love around you.
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