Transracial Adoption from the Eyes of Adoptee, Birth Mom, and Adoptive Mom

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Transracial adoption affects all parts of the adoption triad. We will talk today with a transracial adoptee and his birth mom and adopted mom. We will include tips for adoptive parents raising transracially adopted or fostered child.

In this episode, we cover:

• Adoptee’s experience with transracial adoption 
  • Preschool
  • Elementary years
  • Middle and high school years
    • Code switching
    • Feelings
    • Identity formation
  • College
  • Adulthood
  • Reunion with birth family
  • Birth Father?
• Birth Mother’s experience with reunion and transracial adoption
  • Her role in identity formation
  • Her feelings on reunion
• Adoptive Mother’s experience with transracial adoption
• Tips for adoptive and foster parents

Additional Information:

• Kyle Bullock’s Instagram: kb_2090
• Short documentary based on story of Kyle and his birth family and adoptive family. “Finding identity: Growing up a transracial adoptee” 

This podcast is produced  by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.

Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building