Adoption Secret at Postsecret

I’ve been reading Post Secret for a long time. Every Sunday morning I have my tea while reading other people’s deep, dark (and some not so dark) secrets. Sometimes they have to do with adoption. Like this one: (posted at their facebook group which you may have to join to view)
Post Secret facebook group
If you’re [...]

Adoptee Summer Camp in Michigan

If you’re the parent of a Korean adoptee in the Michigan area, Sae Jong Camp might be of interest to you.
From their website:
Our mission is to provide all Korean-American children the opportunity to explore their Korean-American identities, learn about their Korean heritage, and make friendships to last a lifetime. Our camp also provides [...]

Summer Camp For Iowa Adoptees And Their Families

Iowans for International Adoption, formed in 1972, was originally created to help families in search of international adoption assistance. Giving families an opportunity to meet and support each other, this annual picnic expanded into a weekend retreat and eventually the current K.A.M.P (Korean Adoption Means Pride) and International Retreat.
An annual KAMP and retreat that [...]

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 [...]

Reality Of The Hurt Adoptee

A local magazine, Family Times, interviewed me in last September about older child adoption. One of the many issues I spoke about was when people tell my children that they “have a new life now”.
I disagree.
It’s still the same life, just a new chapter in it.
What happened in their earlier years are part of who [...]

Reactive Attachment Disorder in Young Adoptees

My oldest child (adopted at 11 years old in 2003) struggles with severe emotional issues. He was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder while still in foster care and his inability to control his anger is leading him down a path that concerns me. When we adopted him, we knew he had issues to deal with [...]

Study On Young Adoptees

UNCG RESEARCHERS FIND ADOPTED CHILDREN TO BE AS WELL-ADJUSTED AS THEIR PEERS
By Deborah Durkee
Dr. DiAnne Borders
Dr. Kay Pasley
GREENSBORO — Parenting is a tough job. One with many questions and no training manual, employing instead a sink-or-swim method of learning.
Add adoption to the mix, and the questions of parenting become more complicated, causing adoptive parents to [...]

Families Formed Through Adoption

Nature & Nurture: A New Look at How Families Work
Early results reveal that children adopted into families fare as well as those born into them.
by Susan Freivalds
When Matt McGue and his wife were preparing for the adoption of their daughters, Sammie and Elise, he was struck by how little solid information was available on adoption [...]

Teenage Adoptees "We’re Okay!"

A Portland based adoption agency runs a support group for teenage adoptees, and while not all the teens participating are members of transracial families, many of them are, and that topic is a big part of the discussions.
That the teens would be talking about the subject doesn’t surprise adoption experts because transracial and transcultural adoptions [...]

Talking To Your Child About Adoption

Over the last several years I’ve met a couple of parents, both online and off, that are waiting for that “right time” to tell their children they were adopted. (Luckily this is not the norm. For most parents, adoption is a topic that is shared and spoken about throughout a childs life.)
I adopted [...]

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