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Same Birth Mother, Vastly Different Feelings About Adoption

My daughter asks endless, complex questions about adoption. My son asks none. How can I best support my children, who have the same birth mother, as they grow?
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 1 month ago | 8 Comments | Post a reply
Stolen

It is impossible to predict how your momma's heart will feel when the hard adoption questions come. I know I was not ready for the conversation that came a couple of weeks ago.
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 3 months ago | 18 Comments | Post a reply
On Being Color-Blind

Rather than teach our children to love and accept everyone in spite of their color, we have sought to teach them to love everyone and to celebrate, acknowledge, and respect their color and all that comes attached to it.
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 5 months ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
The Afro

Learning to braid my adopted African-American daughter's hair was hard. Leaving it out in an afro brought different challenges.
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 7 months ago | 13 Comments | Post a reply
Explaining Adoption Where There’s No Culture of Adoption

In Ecuador, my homeland, adoption is not the norm and transracial adoption is even rarer. But on my most recent trip home, I found a way to encourage understanding of my family.
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 9 months ago | 8 Comments | Post a reply
Monster

As I watched my four-year-old son, happily playing the role of the playground monster, I wondered -- will he one day be unwillingly thrust into that role, due to racial stereotyping?
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 10 months ago | 13 Comments | Post a reply
The Person I Wish I Knew

How I wish I could provide my daughter with a picture of her birth mother. How I wish I could see a picture. But my children's birth mother chose a closed adoption.
- Posted by Gaby to Familia Means Family 1 year, 11 months ago | 20 Comments | Post a reply

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Thank you Tito. Many people cringe when I stand firm in my belief of having a picture. For me, if you look at my coloring,…...
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