by pact | Jun 14, 2024 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Book Reviews
Book Review: When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology Edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung reviewed by Katie Wynen 2024 “Representation makes us feel less alone. Representation plus imagination anoints us to fly.” The closing lines of Rebecca Carroll’s...
by pact | Jun 14, 2024 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Book Reviews, Same-Race Adoption
Book Review: I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito Reviewed by Pact Staff 2024 Listening to adoptees is the best way to learn about the experience of being adopted. In her compelling memoir, Susan Ito reminds us that adoption is indeed a lifelong...
by pact | Jun 7, 2024 | First/Birth Parents
by Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander, LMFT updated 2024 Note: I use the term “first parent” to be inclusive of all birthing people who place a child for adoption, including those who do not identify as women at or after the time of birth. What happens to those of us who...
by pact | May 11, 2024 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Adoptive Parenting, Book Reviews, First/Birth Parents, Open Adoption, Preparing to Adopt
Book Review: Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies by Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden reviewed by Pact Staff If you’re seeking to move past the “fairy tale” and deepen your understanding...
by pact | May 11, 2024 | Trauma-Informed Parenting
May 2024 Bryan Post is the founder of The Leaf Company, a program of Parents in Training serving adoptive families in Northern California. He is an adult adoptee, former foster child, child behavior expert, and the author of From Fear to Love: Your Essential Guide to...
by pact | Apr 15, 2024 | Adoptive Parenting, Trauma-Informed Parenting
by Laura Anderson 2015 I confess that, as a child psychologist, I thought I might have an advantage when I became a parent. Yet I admit that, as an adoptive parent, aspects of my clinical training have backfired with my son. Royally. As I learn and grow in the...
