Thanks for Placing Me for Adoption, I love you.
Dear Birth mothers,I was adopted.The woman who gave birth to me took newborn pictures of me, held me for three days, placed a bow in my hair, and then handed…
Children and Birth Mothers Should Trust You
Want fascinating, human interest stories?There are all kinds of great stories at an adoption agency. Between birthmothers and adoptive parents, we see the absolute best people in the world. Sometimes…
Where’s the Handbook? Manual of Directions? Guidelines?
There isn’t one! There aren’t guidelines for learning how to instill pride in a child who has been adopted transracially.
When my husband, Mat, and I first looked into adoption, we were laser focused on how to adopt a baby rather than how to parent a child who would create our transracial family. We read everything we could find about successfully adopting, and spoke to anyone we could on the subject. We had dear friends who had adopted transracially, and were aware of some of the challenges that would arise, but less aware on how to tackle them. (more…)