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Mark Hagland: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee - Part 2

Attachment Theory in Action

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The Rainbows and Unicorns View of Adoption

i want white adopted parents to take off those rose colored glasses, you know. A lot of times there's implicit saviourism. They're saving a child from something to something. The reality is that we have so many complex experiences om you know, i i just had a conversation yesterday with an asian adopte who can't wait to leave the country that she's grown up in. For her, it's far too white, and in her experience, is too race us. You know, people don't get pos um. It's reported all the time in our groups: I have a black daughter five years old, She's first tay of pre-school,. She said

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