by pact | Oct 7, 2022 | Adoption Rituals and Holiday Celebrations, Adoptive Parenting
by Rebecca Weller 2010 Rituals to mark and heighten a child’s transition from family of birth to family of adoption can be personal and highly moving. Here are excerpts from the entrustment ceremony for my son Elijah. Using ritual and symbol to acknowledge and share...
by pact | Oct 7, 2022 | Adoptee Voices/Adoptee Identity, Race and Adoption, Talking About Adoption, Transracial Adoption
by Robert L. Ballard, PhD 2010 Alasdair MacIntyre, a well-known ethicist, wrote: “We all live out narratives in our lives.”[1] If this is true, then each life is a story, with a beginning, an end, and a wide range of characters, plot changes, and climaxes that enrich...
by pact | Oct 6, 2022 | Adoptive Parenting, Ethics in Adoption
by Beth Hall Originally published 2011, updated 2022 This essay is adapted from my closing comments at Pact Family Camp. While I recognize that the Pact community includes adoptees, parents who have placed children for adoption, extended family members, adoption...
by pact | Oct 6, 2022 | Race and Adoption, Transracial Adoption
By Beth Hall Originally published 2018, updated 2022 The irreducible price of learning is realizing that you do not know. One may go further and point out—as any scientist, or artist, will tell you—that the more you learn, the less you know; but that means that you...
