Articles related to "Transracial Adoption"
Demario's Dance
Like so many black boys his age in the U.S. foster system, he waited to hear the word "forever."
• multi-racial families • cross-cultural • trans-racial • adoption • adoption issues
Like so many black boys his age in the U.S. foster system, he waited to hear the word "forever."
• multi-racial families • cross-cultural • trans-racial • adoption • adoption issues
Endings and Beginnings
She died in February... the darkest hour before the dawn, the month when the snow flies and the wind is bitter cold. I feared for an instant that I’d not be invited to the funeral.
• death • dying • multicultural family • family • adoption
She died in February... the darkest hour before the dawn, the month when the snow flies and the wind is bitter cold. I feared for an instant that I’d not be invited to the funeral.
• death • dying • multicultural family • family • adoption
Glass Collectors
We spend our days picking up the pieces of a child broken and hoping that someday he will be whole.
• adoption • foster care • transracial adoption • children • multicultural family
We spend our days picking up the pieces of a child broken and hoping that someday he will be whole.
• adoption • foster care • transracial adoption • children • multicultural family
Is It Enough?
Because this is our National Adoption Awareness month, I have thought a lot lately about my family’s adoption journey and how much it has changed my views on so many things. How, along this winding road, I have learned to question things I never would have thought of and I have learned to rest in that which is simple and true to us all.
• adoption • children • transracial adoption • multicultural adoption • families
Because this is our National Adoption Awareness month, I have thought a lot lately about my family’s adoption journey and how much it has changed my views on so many things. How, along this winding road, I have learned to question things I never would have thought of and I have learned to rest in that which is simple and true to us all.
• adoption • children • transracial adoption • multicultural adoption • families
Moosum Mothers
Sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand. And sometimes they are so afraid that they don’t know what to do except be angry.
• ethnicity • race • transracial adoption • multicultural family • black tuesday
Sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand. And sometimes they are so afraid that they don’t know what to do except be angry.
• ethnicity • race • transracial adoption • multicultural family • black tuesday
On The Other Side of the World
We entered this place of secrets, and brought home with us a child.
• multicultural family • adoption • international adoption • transracial adoption • families
We entered this place of secrets, and brought home with us a child.
• multicultural family • adoption • international adoption • transracial adoption • families
Real Children
And somewhere along the way - between the dreams and the reality; between the nights they called out for you and the ones when you waited up for them, countless memories live.
• parenting • adoption • family • children • multicultural family
And somewhere along the way - between the dreams and the reality; between the nights they called out for you and the ones when you waited up for them, countless memories live.
• parenting • adoption • family • children • multicultural family
Seventy-Five Thousand
On February 27, 2001, seventy-five thousand children became American Citizens on the same day.
• multicultural family • international adoption • adoption • transracial adoption • ethnicity
On February 27, 2001, seventy-five thousand children became American Citizens on the same day.
• multicultural family • international adoption • adoption • transracial adoption • ethnicity
Talena
Somehow this day began to erase a thousand painful ones that had come before it and dried a thousand tears that had been cried.
• children • family • multicultural family • adoption • transracial adoption
Somehow this day began to erase a thousand painful ones that had come before it and dried a thousand tears that had been cried.
• children • family • multicultural family • adoption • transracial adoption
Talena, Part II
And in her outstretched right hand was his hand, his dark skin contrasting with her pale skin, their heads bobbing in unison, faces lifted to the ceiling.
• multicultural family • children • adoption • music • transracial family
And in her outstretched right hand was his hand, his dark skin contrasting with her pale skin, their heads bobbing in unison, faces lifted to the ceiling.
• multicultural family • children • adoption • music • transracial family
The Moon and the Stars
In order to accurately describe the reactions to the arrival of their siblings, I feel the need to try and accurately describe these children themselves...
• adoption • multicultural family • blended family • transracial adoption
In order to accurately describe the reactions to the arrival of their siblings, I feel the need to try and accurately describe these children themselves...
• adoption • multicultural family • blended family • transracial adoption
The Ride
One by one he watched those children before him load into the little blue and white Cessna and then back out again. All day he watched and he waited.
• multicultural family • children • ethnicity • adoption • foster parenting
One by one he watched those children before him load into the little blue and white Cessna and then back out again. All day he watched and he waited.
• multicultural family • children • ethnicity • adoption • foster parenting
Their Stories
A child in our world dies each day while waiting for a family to find them. Largely, their deaths go unmourned, unnoticed. Stories untold...
• adoption • international adoption • human rights • transracial adoption • children
A child in our world dies each day while waiting for a family to find them. Largely, their deaths go unmourned, unnoticed. Stories untold...
• adoption • international adoption • human rights • transracial adoption • children
They Learn What We Teach Them
Whether it's love or intolerence, our children learn what we teach them.
• racism • international adoption • transracial adoption • multicultural • interracial
Whether it's love or intolerence, our children learn what we teach them.
• racism • international adoption • transracial adoption • multicultural • interracial
Waiting for Lucinda
I wonder if there’s room in your heart for another mother, maybe if we push the pain aside...
• adoption • transracial adoption • children • adoptees • birthmothers
I wonder if there’s room in your heart for another mother, maybe if we push the pain aside...
• adoption • transracial adoption • children • adoptees • birthmothers
What I Want My Children to Know
Here are some of the lessons of tolerance that I hope to share with my children.
• ethnicity • children • multicultural families • adoption • transracial adoption
Here are some of the lessons of tolerance that I hope to share with my children.
• ethnicity • children • multicultural families • adoption • transracial adoption
We...
We are a family made up of different cultures and experiences. Yet, in our differences, we are one.
• blended families • families • interracial families • multicultural families • adoption
We are a family made up of different cultures and experiences. Yet, in our differences, we are one.
• blended families • families • interracial families • multicultural families • adoption
Adopting a Biracial Baby
For Caucasian couples wanting to adopt a biracial baby, find out ways to help the child connect to her Black heritage from a young age.
• bi-racial kids • kids with blended heritage • mixed race families • transracial adoption • infant adoption
For Caucasian couples wanting to adopt a biracial baby, find out ways to help the child connect to her Black heritage from a young age.
• bi-racial kids • kids with blended heritage • mixed race families • transracial adoption • infant adoption