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Podcasts

The power and honesty of sound is a powerful thing. These links below will give you additional, valuable, real insight into this journey:

AdopteesOn (Where adoptees discusss the adoption experience)
HonestlyAdoption (Real voices, giving real hope to parents of Foster Care + Adoption)
Nicole Chung’s New Memoir of Adoption (WBUR “OnPoint” guest interview + discussion)
Adopted: Now What? with Becky Walker (devoted to the “voice” of adoptive parents + adoptees sharing stories and information)

Blogs

These digitally written words (whether brief or long) truly have a valuable point of view that can add to the impact on our knowledge base.

Grieving Adoption (Foster the Family: March 29th Jamie C.)
Who Deserves the Title “Mom?” (The Forgotten Initiative: August 5th Shannon Spaid)

Associated with our “White Privilege Through Transracial Adoptee Eyes” Blog

Racial Disparities in Foster Care: Invest in Families of Color (Childrensrights.org)

Articles

When “keywords” and analytics are not important, and the writing style is less of an opinion and more of state of position, fact and/or occurrence, articles can be a difference maker to enhance our knowledge base.

Adoption Struggles: My Adopted Daughter Enters Adolescence (Anonymous, YourTeenMag)
How and When to Discuss Adoption with Your Child (Dr. Jennifer Bliss Psy.D.LCSW, Psychology Today)
Understanding Difficult Behavior: For Foster and Adoptive Parents (Carmen Sample MSW, LSW, CAC, GoodTherapy)

Associated with “White Privilege Through Transracial Adoptee Eyes” Blog

New York City Confronts Massive Overrepresentation of Black Children in Foster Care (Michael Fitzgerald, New York Editor, The Chronicle of Social Change)
Child Trends: Key Facts & Trends In Foster Care (Child Trends Databank 2019 Foster care)

References

Websites, Books + more for further, informative additions that will enhance our compassion and perspectives.

NEWEST ADDITIONS

Parenting the Hurt Child – book by Gregory C. Keck and Regina Kupecky [2002,2009]
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew – book by Sherrie Eldridge 1999

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