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When Foster Youth Aren’t Supported After They Turn 18 We All Lose.
Read more: When Foster Youth Aren’t Supported After They Turn 18 We All Lose.Young adults tend to face a lot of pressure to know themselves and their life goals well by the time they leave high school. People have probably been asking them for years what they want to do with their lives, and by graduation, they expect an answer. Often, foster youth have even more on their…
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Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkle
Read more: Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkleOne population of foster children that often doesn’t get the right kind of attention is those who age out of foster care. This cliff that youth often fall off of exists due to many factors. Some of the problems are due to the system they are leaving and the resources that are drying up. Some…
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We Don’t Know Enough About the Adoptee and First Parent Experience. Memoirs Can Help.
Read more: We Don’t Know Enough About the Adoptee and First Parent Experience. Memoirs Can Help.The Time Before Research It wasn’t a very long time ago when many adoptions were hidden away and not spoken of in polite company. Some young women still tell us stories of when their families sent them away to have a baby, then the baby was taken from them with little fanfare and given to…
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What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne Novy
Read more: What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne NovyMarianne Novy was an adoptee who was encouraged to hide that fact and obliged the people around her by keeping quiet about it until she became a college student. Over time she chose to seek out members of her birth family and develop some relationships with some of them. When she became a college professor…
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Why Do Adoptees Search for First Family?
Read more: Why Do Adoptees Search for First Family?One thing that makes adoptees unique is their connection to more than one family at a young age. (1) In the past many times, adoptive families and sometimes first families made an effort to keep this reality quiet. (2) We know better now. There are many studies and the witness of both adoptees and first…
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A First Parent Surprise with Ed Di Gangi
Read more: A First Parent Surprise with Ed Di GangiEdward Di Gangi didn’t feel the pull to search out his first family until later in life. He felt content with the life he was living and it took a series of events to put in his mind the determination to start his search. Once he did start his search he connected with numerous people…
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Acknowledging Race in Adoption Matters
Read more: Acknowledging Race in Adoption MattersLove is Important, But it isn’t the Complete Answer. Adoptive families often are full of love for the children they consider adopting. Many of these families are open to inviting children of any race into their homes. They feel like the love they have for all of the children in their homes should be enough…
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Isaac Etter Discusses Adoptees and Identity
Read more: Isaac Etter Discusses Adoptees and IdentityIsaac Etter grew up as a black boy surrounded by a loving but also primarily white family. It took him a long time to understand his full identity and how his race affected his place in the world. Over time, Isaac educated not only his adoptive family about race and adoption but also sought to…
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When Your Adopted Child Has a Severe Diagnosis Nothing in Your Day is the Same.
Read more: When Your Adopted Child Has a Severe Diagnosis Nothing in Your Day is the Same.Adoptive families can look similar to other families. But sometimes when families adopt they find that the children they have invited into their homes have behaviors they never imagined they’d face. Maybe social workers informed them that the children had been through a lot and they would need to prepare accordingly. Sometimes social workers were…
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