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  Caring for Your Child’s Skin and Hair in Transracial Adoption - Expert Webinar

  When you become a parent through adoption, your child’s hair and skin may be different from your own -- particularly if you adopted transracially. Join Brooke Jackson, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist, to ask questions about any of the challenges you've faced during Adoptive Families' Caring for Your Child's Skin and Hair Expert Webinar on December 12, 2012 from 1PM to 2PM ET. Submit questions in advance by posting a comment below.

  Brooke Jackson, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist, is the Medical Director of the Skin Wellness Center of Chicago and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Her…

  - Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago | 20 New Comments | Add a Comment
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  A Perfect Storm Impacts Foster Children Every Day in the United States

  November is National Adoption Awareness Month. While we celebrate all families formed through adoption during this month, the focus is on helping the more than 100,000 children in the U.S. foster system find permanent homes. On National Adoption Day, which falls on Saturday, November 17 this year, courts across the country will remain open to finalize the adoptions of children from foster care. In honor of this special day and month, we are pleased to present this guest post by an adoptive parent and the husband of a former foster child.

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  A Perfect Storm Impacts Foster Children Every Day in the United…

  - Posted 6 months, 1 week ago | 2 New Comments | Add a Comment
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  Contest: Where Were You When You Got “The Call”?

  THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who shared a family memory for a chance to win a "Roots of Love" pendant.

  Congratulations to the winner, AFC member Jaylene. Here's the memory she shared:
  "I was a high school choir teacher, and got 'the call' during a rehearsal. I announced my news and had 100 high school kids come crowd around me, jumping up and down and giving me hugs. It was the best feeling in the world! Two…

  - Posted 1 year ago | 93 New Comments | Add a Comment
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  Jeremy Lin and Subtle Stereotypes

  For the past few weeks, I have, I admit, been taken over by Linsanity. Jeremy Lin's astonishing prowess on the basketball court, after years of dismissal by coaches, has every element of a Horatio Alger story. Moreover, Lin is straightforward about the likelihood that his skill went unnoticed for so long because he's Asian. In a recent interview, Lin said, "I am frequently described as 'deceptively quick' or 'deceptively athletic.' What part of me doesn't look fast or athletic?"

  Such stereotypes, often subconscious in those who hold them, can be much harder for our non-white, transracially adopted children to live with than acts of overt racism. For many kids (and adults), it's hard to recognize small…

  - Posted 1 year, 2 months ago | 0 New Comments | Add a Comment
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