Transracial Adoption: One Families Experience

A mom and her son discuss their realities of growing up as a multi-racial adoptive family. Judy and Aaron Stigger share their insights, experiences and advice for Caucasian families considering adopting an African American child. You can see the love they have for each other in this video. © 2011 Forever Parents Share Tags: adoptive family,...

Adopting Outside Your Race

What advice would you give someone who was considering adopting outside their race? I asked our forum members and here are some of their answers. That if they had to ‘talk themselves into this’, then they shouldn’t be doing it. That if they are caucasian themselves, once they adopt a baby of color, their family will forever be categorized as a multiracial family and it will change how much of society will...

Adoption And Race

What role does race play in adoption? Not the race of the child, but rather the race of the person or couple who is adopting. Has your race ever been a factor (not necessarily in a negative way either) in your adoption process? I asked this question at our adoption forums and I’ll open it up to our blog visitors as well. Feel free to answer in a comment here, or on your own blog. If you answer at your blog, let me know...

I Don’t Have Your Eyes

Family connections are vitally important to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and for children in foster care or kinship placements, celebrating the differences within their families as well as the similarities that connect them, is the foundation for belonging. As parents we can strengthen our children’s tie to family and embrace the...

Madonna Approved To Adopt Mercy

In a reversal of their original decision, a judge approved Madonna’s appeal to adopt three-year-old Chifundo “Mercy” James from Malawi. Madonna’s initial bid for adoption was rejected after a judge ruled prospective parents must live in the country 18 to 24 months.  During Fridays’ hearing, Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo called the so-called residency requirement an “old law.” Madonna released the following...

Rosie’s Family by Lori Rosove

Popular picture book provides vital advice for interracial and multi-cultural adoptive families. It is an essential tool for adoptive parents and their children for better understanding of adoption. Asia Press, a small press publisher of children’s books, today announced that it will not be re-printing its popular book, “Rosie’s Family; An Adoption Story” after the current run is sold out. This...

Transracially Adopted Children’s Bill of Rig...

This has circulated among adoption groups for a while and I just found it as I was cleaning up our old adoption forums on ezboard (we moved to our own server in January). Transracially Adopted Children’s Bill of Rights Every child is entitled to love and full membership in his or her family. Every child is entitled to have his or her heritage and culture embraced and valued. Every child is entitled to parents who value...

Madonna’s Adoption Approved

A court in Lilongwe, the capital of David’s home country, has approved Madonna’s adoption case. Proceedings for the adoption began in 2006 and Madonna was accused of abusing her celebrity status to smooth over the adoption process. Alan Chinula, Madonna’s lawyer, said, “It is a positive and beautiful judgment that will have an impact on Malawi’s adoption laws,”...

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Transracial A...

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute issued a 58 page report of transracial adoption. Basically they want to adequately prepare white families before they can adopt black children and they want to seek out and recruit more black families to adopt black foster children. I see two issues here…… 1) I don’t care what color you are, unless you live under a rock how could black families not know that black...

Transracial Adoption

**note: I’m not quite sure where I originally found this article or who the author is. I’ve had it saved for a while** Parents who adopt transracially cannot ignore that they become a minority family, subject to criticism, odd remarks, and prejudice from people of all races. I remember taking Julie, then 3 1/2 months old, to her first Christmas party. She was immediately surrounded by preschool girls, wanting to...

Transracial Adoptees

Growing up black in a white family By SALLY ACHARYA “We had a big white Ford van with windows all around so people could see in. From the inside of the van, I felt like there were all these white heads and then right in the middle this little brown dot . . . When people saw me with my family, they’d do a double take.” –Shecara, nurse and mother Thirty years ago a commercial about needy Cambodians...

Support For Those Who Adopt Transracially

Brandi, a visitor to our blog, asked the following question in a comment on a post about teenage adoptees. This article is very intersting. Does anyone know of any support groups that assist families in delaing with the issues they may face while raising a child of a different color? Brandi, You didn’t mention if you’re looking for an online or offline group. I’d like to invite you to join our adoption forum...

Transracial Adoption

When we first started the adoption process, transracial adoption wasn’t an option that I had ever thought of. I just assumed we would adopt a white skinned child. I also never considered adopting siblings. I just assumed we would adopt one child at a time. It’s not that we were against transracial or sibling adoptions…we just never really thought about it. Well…you know what happens when you assume....

Transracial Adoption Video

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Transracial Adoption

Striking a deadly blow to racism by James S. Goff Racism is defined as ‘‘the belief in the superiority of one race over another and antagonism based on this belief.” However, racism is more complicated, divisive and pervasive than this simple definition provides. It is like a dark shadow that travels among humans, robbing them of their self worth and identity every chance it gets. It sees the weakness and shallowness in...

Transracial Adoption

13 things to consider before adopting transracially. Adopting a child of a different race is not something everybody is comfortable doing. Two of my three children are biracial (black/white) and and my husband & I are white. My third child is white although she is biologically related to her siblings. Because they came home to us as a multiracial sibling group, they don’t have a lot of the racial issues other...

Transracial Adoption

Transracial or transcultural adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents.People choose to adopt transracially or transculturally for a variety of reasons. Fewer young Caucasian children are available...

Transracial Adoption

Several of our adoption forum members have adopted transracially. When asked to share what advice they would give to those considering adopting transracially, they shared their thoughts and advice. ** That if they had to ‘talk themselves into this’….then they shouldn’t be doing it. ** If they are caucasian themselves, once they adopt a baby of color, their family will forever be categorized as a family...