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,...

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...

Every Child Needs Love

© 2011 Forever Parents Share Tags: adopt a child, adopting a child, children in foster care, foster care adoption, Older Child Adoption, Special Needs Adoption, Transracial Adoption Related posts Home For The Holidays: Foster/Adoption Special (1) Adoption PSA (0) ‘Jockey’ Adoption Services & Programs (4) Treat Dad To...

Adoption PSA

Share Tags: adopting a child, adopting children, Adoption, adoption options, choosing adoption, Gay Adoption, Older Child Adoption, Special Needs Adoption, Transracial Adoption Related posts Home For The Holidays: Foster/Adoption Special (1) ‘Jockey’ Adoption Services & Programs (4) The Reluctant Spouse (0) Support...

Enjoy A Frosty This Weekend And Support Adoption

This Father’s Day Weekend (June 20-21), Wendy’s is helping consumers treat Dad and help foster children at the same time. Wendy’s third annual Father’s Day Frosty Weekend provides an easy and tasty way to support the cause of foster care adoption and help the more than 129,000 children in the U.S. who are waiting for the love of forever families. During Father’s Day Weekend, Wendy’s will donate 50¢ from every...

Support Adoption And Send A Free E-card For Father...

It’s no secret around here that I am a big supporter of the work The Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption does. Now you can help and it won’t cost you a thing. Create and send a free fathers days e-card, or choose a celebrity created one through their site Frosty Card and Wendy’s will donate 25 cents to The Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption. Father’s day is this Sunday so stop by their site and...

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...

Home For The Holidays: Foster/Adoption Special

Tune into CBS on Tuesday, December 23 8 p.m. EST/PST or 7 p.m. CST/MST For the 10th Annual A Home for the Holidays Special Celebrating Foster Care Adoption! Don’t miss this heartwarming one-hour television show! Celebrity performers will share the stage with extraordinary American families who share their joy and their stories of foster care adoption. This year’s show features Faith Hill and includes Tim McGraw,...

‘Jockey’ Adoption Services & Prog...

I’m excited to pass along this terrific program to you, made possible by Jockey (yes, the underwear company – lol). They are working with families who adopted through foster care to provide them with post-adoption support such as respite and parent support groups. As you know, we adopted three children though foster care and often gripe on this blog about the lack of services offered to those of us who have...

Thoughts on Transracial Adoption

Two of my children are biracial. Even though my three children are biological siblings (actually half biological siblings), one of the is white, while the other two are brown. I think because they’ve always been a multiracial sibling group and have always accepted each other as family, we’ve never had any of the situations I hear some families talk about. Actually, the only situation that has come up regarding...

Adoption Interviews #5

Here is the fifth installment of the adoption interviews we’ve been doing with parents who’ve adopted and those who are still in the process. If you’d like to be included, please leave a comment and I’ll send you the information. This one is from Linny, who is the co-administrator at our adoption forum. People decide to adopt for many different reasons. What led you to adoption? As a young child I...

National Adoption Month-2008

November is National Adoption Month! November is National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care. This year’s theme of adopting teens from foster care builds on the Ad Council’s new public service announcement (PSA) campaign of the Children’s Bureau, the Adoption Exchange Association, and The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. Here are some...

National Adoption Day 2008

National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for...

Adoptive Music

What a great idea! Lullabies – For China’s Daughters And Their Adoptive Families, is “meant to soothe your little one by bringing words of hope, safety, and home while also capturing the deep emotion and feelings parents have for their child”. Take a look at the video below for more information or check out their wesbite: Adoptive Music Share...

John McCain Adopted One Of His Children From Bangl...

I just read yesterday that The McCains adopted one of their children (a daughter) from Bangladesh and that was the first I had heard of it. Of course as a parent through adoption I found it interesting (not that it would sway my vote-just cool as a fellow adoptive parent). I think this interview may be a few months old but here’s part of it. He talks about what led up to them adopting her and also transracial adoption....

Treat Dad To Frosty And Help Children In Foster Ca...

My daughters (who we adopted through foster care) took my husband to Wendy’s for a Fathers Day frosty last year and they intend to take him again this year. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is such a great organization and is one that everyone in the adoption community should support! TREAT DAD TO A FATHER’S DAY FROSTY AND HELP CHANGE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE DUBLIN, OHIO (May 27, 2008) – Forgo...

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...