by pact | Feb 4, 2023 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Adoptive Parenting, Race and Adoption, Transracial Adoption
by Stephanie Flores-Koulish originally published 2018, excerpted 2023 Recently, we heard the news of a Border Patrol agent asking two women at a Montana gas station for identification after the agent heard them speaking Spanish to each other. Social media also helped...
by pact | Jan 27, 2023 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, First/Birth Parents
by Katie Wynen 2015 Adoption literature is dominated by the voices of adoptive parents, with a sprinkling of adoptee voices and even fewer birth parent voices. The book Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge was published in...
by Martin Gibson | Sep 19, 2022
Our “inner shadow” is the part of ourselves that we hide or suppress or avoid. This webinar discusses common shadow aspects for adult adoptees, the need for a keenly-developed inner shadow witness, and ways of integrating our inner shadows through awareness of...
by Martin Gibson | Sep 19, 2022
Learn from the foremost experts on the experience of being adopted: adopted people themselves Watch a short film featuring adoptees ages 10 to 17 speak about their experiences with and thoughts on race, first/birth families, adoption and more. The film is followed by...
by Martin Gibson | Sep 14, 2022
Do you want to deepen your knowledge of adoption by learning from the foremost experts? Pact firmly believes that adopted people—not adoptive parents—are the first, most important voices to hear from about the experience of being adopted. In this webinar, adopted...
