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February 5, 2011

Transracial Adoption: How to Do It Well

Radio Show “Transracial Adoption: How to Do It Well” http://www.creatingafamily.org/radioshow.html


Transracial adoption “works”, but what exactly can parents do to help ensure that their children will grow up with a healthy racial and social identity. Join our guest Beth Hall, Founder and Director of PACT, a multicultural adoption organization dedicated to addressing essential issues affecting adopted children of color, and co-author of Inside Transracial Adoption. Natasha Sky is a multiracial woman and mother of four young multiracial children, who joined her family through birth and adoption. Natasha created the MultiracialSky website, a collection of resources for multiracial families.


The Korean War Baby notes: Many in Cyber-Adoptionland (hmmm, maybe a newly coined word?) are actually helping Adoptive Families to Do It Better. Now that is what I'm talking about. Oh, that more Adoption Professionals in the past could have prepared Adoptive Parents perhaps better. With the Internet there are tons of sources out there for greater understanding.

...Now maybe the State and Federal governments could require by Laws that part of preparations to becoming an Adoptive Parent would include minimum of hours/classes. Some agencies and States have something already, but for the discerning Parent (Okay, even Singles are now allowed to Adopt) there are resources Online.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 06, 2011

    Adoptive parents already are required by Hague requirements to so many hours of education (a lot) for each adoption. Yes, I agree we could have used any education when we adopted an older child from a disrupted placement in 88. We were told to just love her. We did but she never felt it. There were just not resources then like now
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  2. Korean War BabyMarch 17, 2011

    Thank you Dawn for your comments. I encourage readers of my blog to reach out for others experiences and viewpoints. Everyone has something to add to the total information on our complex issues of This Thing of Ours-Adoption.

    The resources are now more available and more Adoption Agencies are prepared to help longer with Post Adoption Services. The inability of some Adopted ones to Attach to their Adoptive Parents has now been researched as Attachment Disorders. Google search for related words on many sites that DO now provide a variety of help. We all need to work with each other and "Do it better" (Stolen or borrowed from "Adoption- the movie".

    KWB

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