Yesterday

We’ve added a new article to our site: “Nurturing Healthy Racial Identity Development Vs. Internalized Racism In Transracially-Adopted Youngsters”. The author of the article is Jane Brown, MSW, creator of Adoption Playshops, and a longtime adoption social worker and educator. She and her husband are parents to eight children, five of whom joined their [...]

NURTURING HEALTHY RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT VS. INTERNALIZED RACISM IN TRANSRACIALLY ADOPTED YOUNGSTERS by Jane A. Brown, MSW When reprimanded for not having tidied her room as she’d been asked to, 12-year-old Elise erupted in anger and yelled: “Everyone is always bugging me! Even the girls at school tell me that my skin is too brown so their [...]

April 8

From New Demographic & Talking Points Memo Cafe: As I follow the discussion we’re having here at TPMCafe, I keep thinking about The Mother Teresa Effect, a concept based on her quote: “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” Jae Ran Kim explains: “In 2004, Carnegie Mellon [...]

March 25

From Anti-Racist Parent (originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul): On numerous occasions in the past, I’ve been fairly unsuccessful in trying to convey how many times I’ve felt that the messages and attitudes perpetuated by our society about adoption often leads me to feel that I am reduced down to nothing more than a commodity. [...]

February 28

Magazines and Newsletters for Parents Click any of the topics below to reveal a list of related links. If you have a publication you think may be of interest, feel free to send it to joi@pointmade.com. LGBTQ Parents Gay Parent Magazine Online Newsletters Adoptive Families Today - Articles Children’s Bureau Express ComeUnity - Adoption Book Review RainbowKids The Adoption Activism Press The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption [...]