Originally posted on Life, Adopted:
I find it rather interesting that when adult adoptees express and share thoughts on our younger counterparts being abused or killed while in the care…
This article was posted by Ann Brenoff on February 10, 2014 on the HuffPost Parents Blog. I agree with the author’s point that “adopted daughter” isn’t always necessary when depicting […]
From the time I was little, I remember carrying around a deep sadness about my missing family. I would tell my mother and others how I missed my birthmother. I […]
Authors: Ying Ying Fry and Amy Klazkin, Photography by Ying Ying Fry, Brian Boyd, and Terry M. Fry Rating: ★★★★★ Plot Summary: Kids Like Me in China is about an eight […]
From the comical adoption of Kristoff by a family of stone trolls in Disney’s Frozen, to the brief mentioning of the two dysfunctional sisters in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine being […]
Originally posted on My Mind on Paper:
The messages that are intended aren’t always the messages that are received. Below I have complied 5 myths followed by the truths and…
On many websites I see advertisements for jewelry or knit hats whose proceeds in part will support an adoption (mostly international). Other websites or blogs simply have a giving link […]
by Jessie Lutz – Chinese adoptee, high school senior, international communications manager for CCI They call me twinkie. An American classic. White creme nestled in a fluffy yellow cake. Yellow on […]
This weekend, I chaperoned a middle school retreat in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Though my own middle school years aren’t that far behind me, I seemed to […]
I reblogged an article by Angela Tucker earlier this week that discusses NPR’s decision to use a white adoptive parent’s voice instead of a transracial adoptee’s for their Sunday Conversation […]
Red Thread Broken 