An article about the different ways adoptive parents can and need to support their children. This specifically discusses the issues, privileges, and challenges of adopting a child of a different race.
An article with parenting techniques designed to support and uplift transracially adopted children. It also has a bibliography which features additional useful resources.
An article about a Black father and his family’s experience with raising a white child and transracial adoption.
A resource page with links to transracial adoption blogs, websites, books, Facebook groups, and more.
NTDC is a new online program based on research and input from experts, families who have experience with fostering or adopting children, and former foster and adoptive youth. It provides potential foster or adoptive parents with the information and tools needed to parent a child who has experienced trauma, separation, or loss.
A resource page from the Child Welfare Information Gateway with links to information about racially and culturally diverse adoptions.
A factsheet from the Children’s Bureau that explains how to support a child’s racial and cultural identity, embrace life as a racially and culturally diverse family, and prepare a child to handle racism.
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.
This is a resource page which features articles that discuss the racism and microaggressions that accompany transracial adoption.
A book written by an adoptee which lists 20 things that adopted children may fear and want to discuss with their parents.
