Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

This is the Introduction to a series of posts on related challenging topics (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six.) The purpose of this series is to make clear that today’s waiting children—international and domestic—infants and older children—are a traumatized population. As will become clear over the next two weeks, [...]

Adult adoptees are no longer the exception to the many voices in adoption that can offer adoptive parents essential tools for success! This post highlights three of the many adult adoptees who blog about their experiences of growing up as transcultural adoptees in American society. They also comment on the adoption process as well. Their [...]

It is often difficult to get adopted children to talk about adoption. Yet, most report thinking about it “all the time.” Movies, websites—Adoption Clubhouse, culture camps, books, support groups, etc., provide the inroad needed to help open the discussion. Children need to talk about their pre- and post-adoption experiences—on and off—over time in order to [...]