A brief article offering suggestions to prospective adoptive parents and current adoptive parents for maintaining transparency in adoption. It discusses birth families, the search and reunion process, and maintaining openness.
An adoptive parent’s blog about how reading adoptee’s stories and opinions worries her. Adult adoptee responds by addressing her fears. This is a good resource for prospective adoptive parents worried about adoption.
An article by American Adoptions that examines some of the challenges that many transracial adoptees face.
A landing page for post-adoption support services and parent support groups available to families in Florida.
A 2-hour virtual workshop led by a transracial adoptee (Angela Tucker). Families leave understanding how transracial adoptees progress from racial awareness to racial identity, as well as practical skills for how to handle insensitive and racist remarks.
An article written by an adoptee about what the world should know about the adoption experience. While this is only an introductory adoption article, the author explores many relevant aspects and experiences to adoptees.
An online mentorship community that values adoptee power, intersectionality, and a healing community. They offer online group meetings between adoptees, and 1:1 mentorship with affordable prices.
This podcast episode is about how to talk with your parents about searching for your birth family. The episode discusses how it’s normal for adoptees to want to search and the difficulties of allowing yourself to pursue that.
Although this podcast episode is full of hard and honest conversations, it’s ultimately about the joyful reunion between birth mother and adoptee. The episode walks you through three guiding principles for a successful family reunion.
A podcast episode featuring a queer, transracial adoptee from Vietnam. Christopher reflects on his identity and growing up in a white family and predominantly white community.
