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...
by Michele Rabkin | May 11, 2024 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Adoptive Parenting, 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 Michele Rabkin | 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 Michele Rabkin | 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...
by Michele Rabkin | Feb 16, 2024 | Ethics in Adoption, First/Birth Parents
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (St. Martin’s Press, 2024) reviewed by Michele Rabkin Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson is essential reading–and will likely be deeply unsettling for adoptive...
