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Adoptive Families
Date and time is TBD
|Virtual Event
Adoptive families, spanning diverse ethnic backgrounds, embark on a journey of love. Recognizing and celebrating each adopted child’s authentic ethnicity is crucial for shaping their identity and sense of belonging.
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
Virtual Event
About the event
In a world where families come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, the journey of adoption is one of many testaments to the boundlessness of what it means to love and exist as family. Adoptive families, especially those of varied cultural backgrounds, hold a unique worldview in the blending of several familial identities that, at times, can be complex and often under-recognized. As a result, the presence of widespread support systems for adoptive families is essential in the unveiling of certain inevitable challenges, particularly as a means of aiding in the development and success of the adopted child whose experience is often misunderstood.
Adoptive families, particularly within transracial, transcultural, and transnational adoptions, navigate familial intricacies such as cultural identity and the need for preservation and perpetuation, first/biological family acknowledgement and embracement, as well as ambiguous grief and loss experienced by children joining families through the system of adoption. The nuances…