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by Leceta Chisholm Guibault
The book Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall covers naming and re-naming adopted children.
The authors state that because children as young as four-and-a-half months recognize their names (research from the State University of New York at Buffalo), the child is better served when adoptive parents keep the child’s name and continue to use it. They suggest, “Asking a child whose world is
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
When my brother, Cam, and his wife, Karin, went to Fuling, China, to bring home a 10-month-old baby girl, they invited Karin’s sister, Nancy and I, the aunties, along for the trip. The four of us met in Shanghai to begin what turned out to be a momentous experience.Neon and noise are hallmarks of Shanghai. The only respite from the sensual barrage is to be found in one’s hotel room. China is a study in contrast. Sleek skyscrapers
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
This morning, I had a talk with a neighbour in my office building about why she is leaving her job. As a black woman, she feels the presence of a glass ceiling and feels that within that company she can never achieve her potential.As white people, do we dismiss these stories as isolated incidents? Do we discount the cumulative effects that racism has on people of colour? We do not see the daily slights that people of colour live
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
I am the mom of a 13-year-old girl adopted from the US. She is African-American, we are Caucasian. Some of her friends (it’s a predominantly “white” school) are attracting the interest of boys. My daughter says nobody seems interested in her, and she thinks it’s because of her colour. How do we respond to this in a way that helps?Surely you will want her to feel valuable, attractive, and wanted. It may be more difficult for your daughter as peer
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
Chelan Gill remembers always knowing she was adopted. It would have been difficult for her parents to hide it because, although Chelan’s mother is South Asian like her, her father is Caucasian. Adopted at birth, Chelan was raised within western culture and influences – even having the last name of Fletcher. However, at 26, she married a South Asian man who taught her about Indian culture and customs, and at 27, Chelan decided to search out
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
Harambee is an annual camp in Naramata, BC for families parenting children of African heritage, either through birth or adoption. Cultural activities and networking are highlights of the camp with a primary goal of creating long-term relationships between the families.Harambee is a Swahili word meaning the celebration of unity. For my son and me it means so much more. Harambee is the one week of the year that we would gladly give up the other
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
In 2002, I had the opportunity to spend an incredible week with a wonderful friend, also an adoptive mother,visiting the country of our daughter’s birth.There were many moments when I felt guilty that Kahleah, nine, was not with me. She had said, ”I can’t believe you are visiting my birth country without me!” I was not sure before my trip what to expect. Could I travel to Guatemala with a precocious pre-teen adoptee? Was it
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
A compelling new DVD from AFABC gives voice to local transracial adoptees—essential viewing for all parents and professionals. Yvonne Devitt, AFABC’s Education and Cross-Cultural Coordinator, spoke to Focus on Adoption about the DVD.Why make this film? AFABC initiated the production of this film because we felt it valuable to create something with a current and local, BC perspective. There aren’t many films that give voice to transracial
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
In his landmark book “Shades of Black”, William Cross describes the following stages in the development of Black identity, stages believed to be similar for most Asians, Latinos and Aboriginals living in white-dominated society. There is no particular age range attached to each stage, and no expectation that all individuals will move through all stages, though the process typically spans the period from pre-adolescence to middle adulthood.
Source: Focus on Adoption magazine
Last week I expressed some concern about whether or not my first-grader was old enough to be learning about some of the more violent aspects of the civil rights movement. One of the frustrating outcomes of that conversation is that the teacher (and a few commenters) misinterpreted my concern as being over conversations about race in general, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I am a firm believer that we should be talking to our kids
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