Section 1: The Challenges of Transracial
Adoption
- The I-You Bridge
- The Experts Speak Out
- How to Use This Book
- Our Perspective on Transracial Adoption
- Race=Adoption
- Personality Issues
- Acknowledging Differences
- Negative reactions from Communities of Color
- Our Working Definitions Useful Books
Section 2: Racial Identity
- Protecting My Child from Her Mom, A Racist
- The Experts Speak Out
- For People of Color
- For White People
- Facing the Issues: Race
- Respecting Feelings
- Strategies: Seeking Diversity
- Strategies: Concrete Tools for Operating in a Racist World
- Useful Books
Section 3: Family Matters
- Together No Matter What
- The Experts Speak Out
- Strengthening Family Identity
- Parenting in Adoption
- Birth Family
- Extended Family
- Siblings in Adoptive Families
- “You are sooooooo special.” One-child Families
- Families that Grow through Birth plus Adoption
- International Adoptive Families
- Single-Parent Transracial Families
- Gay and Lesbian Families
- Religious Choices and Beliefs
- Providing For Your Child’s Future
- When Family Members Have Special Needs and Issues
- Useful Books
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Section 4: Through Development’s
Lens
- All in A Name
- The Experts Speak Out
- Sorting Out the Issues
- Infants
- Preschoolers
- School-Agers
- Teens
- Our Children Are Our Children Forever
- Useful books
Section 5: Cultural Specifics in Focus
- Belonging or Be-Longing?
- The Experts Speak Out
- Building a foundation
- Who Defines Normal?-White Identity
- One Drop Rules-African American Identity Issues
- Racism and Rice-Asian Identity Issues
- Mi Familia, Mi Corazon-Latino Identity Issues
- Being Seen-Native American Identity Issues
- More than a Box-Biracial and Multiracial Identity Issues
- Useful Books
Section 6: Parting Thoughts
- And so it goes…
- A Transracially-adopted Child’s Bill of Rights
- A Transracial Adoptive Parent’s Wish List
- Conclusions
- Test Your Knowledge
Index
About Pact, An Adoption Alliance
About the Authors
About Perspectives Press |
