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Too often in the adoption field, the adoptee perspective is subordinated to that of the adoptive parent. Pact believes that adult adoptees are the truest experts on their own experience. We welcome adoptee voices and support them as part of our mission. Topics include lifelong issues, search and reunion, parenting, birth parent relationships, loss, and adoption identity.
Pact offers support for adopted tweens and teens of color, and their non-adopted siblings, and we have a well-developed program for adopted children and youth of all ages at our nationally acclaimed Pact Family Camp, which is also attended by many adult adoptees. We particularly invited adopted adults to get involved with our programs as speakers and mentors. Become a member of Pact to take full advantage of our many resources and to receive our newsletter, Pact's Point of View, which includes many articles and essays by adopted adults. Pact members receive a discount at our online bookstore, which features great reads carefully selected for parents and youth, including many titles written by adopted people. While most of Pact's services and programs focus on adoptees under 18 years of age, we do strive to connect adult adoptees with blogs and other online resources that will be useful to them.
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Adopted People Articles
- "Don't You Dare Repeat Any of This" Thoughts of Adoption By An Adoptee-By-The-Sea
by Joyce Maguire Pavao (1997 | 328 KB | )
- A Biblical View of Adoption
by Chené Tucker, MSW, LCSW (1994 | 107 KB | )
- A Day In My Life
by Amanda Kirby (1997 | 66 KB | )
- A Long Journey Home
by Molly McCullough (2008 | 351 KB | )
- Adoptees Experience
by JoAnne Whittington (1998 | 85 KB | )
- Adoption
Means Having Two Family Legacies
by Francie Portnoy (2004 | 99 KB | )
- Adoption and Generations
by Linda Yellin (1998 | 81 KB | )
- Adoption Milestones
by Susan Soon-keum Cox (2000 | 69 KB | )
- Adoption, Race and Where's the Hairbrush?
by Lisa Lerner (2008 | 117 KB | )
- All This Time
by Paul Kamm & Eleanor MacDonald (2009 | 319 KB | )
- Ambiguous Loss
by Jae Ran Kim (2008 | 111 KB | )
- Ask Pact: Is There Something Wrong With Me?
by Pact (2010 | 327 KB | )
- Ask Pact: Black Hair and the Politics of Beauty
by Lisa Marie Rollins (2008 | 380 KB | )
- Ask Pact: How to Deal with Teasing About Adoption
by Susan Ito (2009 | 340 KB | )
- Balance Beam: Being A Parent/Being Adopted
by Susan Ito (1997 | 327 KB | )
- Bastard Nation - What's In a Name
by Damsel Plum (1998 | 121 KB | )
- Beginnings
by Susan Ito (2005 | 88 KB | )
- Book Review: Daughter of the Ganges
by Asha Miro (2008 | 434 KB | )
- Book Review: Forever Fingerprints
by Sherrie Eldridge (2007 | 86 KB | )
- Book Review: In Their Parents' Voices
by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda (2006 | 104 KB | )
- Book Review: In Their Siblings' Voices
by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda (2009 | 89 KB | )
- Book Review: Lucky Girl
by Mei-Ling Hopgood (2010 | 183 KB | )
- Book Review: Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journey
by Marilyn Lammert, Ellen Lee and Mary Anne Hess (2009 | 406 KB | )
- Book Review: Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be?
by Robert Ballard (2010 | 210 KB | )
- Book Review: Slant
by Laura Williams (2010 | 361 KB | )
- Book Review: The Colours in Me: Writing & Poetry by Adopted Children & Youth
Edited by Perlita Harris (2009 | 412 KB | )
- Book Review: The English American
by Alison Larkin (2008 | 304 KB | )
- Book Review: The Women Who Raised Me
by Victoria Rowell (2005 | 82 KB | )
- Book Review: Twenty Things Adopted Kids
Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
by Sherri Eldridge (2005 | 104 KB | )
- Book Review: Why Can't You Look Like Me?
by Ola Zuri (2010 | 525 KB | )
- Borders of Belonging
by Sofia Arroyo (2008 | 309 KB | )
- Building An Adoptive Identity
by Harold Grotevant (2009 | 129 KB | )
- Coming Full Circle, Becoming a Parent
by Hollee McGinnis (aka Lee Hwa Yeong) (2009 | 114 KB | )
- Director's Corner - Seeking Solutions
by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (1992 | 105 KB | )
- Director's Corner: Did I Cry Too Much?
by Beth Hall (2009 | 384 KB | )
- Director's Corner: Facing Our Worst Fears Telling the Truth to Adopted Children
by Beth Hall (2010 | 144 KB | )
- Director's Corner: Getting Over It and Stepping It Up
by Beth Hall (2011 | 130 KB | )
- Director's Corner: Why Did This Happen To Us?
by Beth Hall (2012 | 123 KB | )
- Encouraging Reluctant Teens & Tweens to Attend Teen Club
by Pact (2011 | 342 KB | )
- Family Stories: Surviving Foster Care - A Day with Shane Salter
Interviewed by Roxanne Agur (1997 | 373 KB | )
- Family Story: Dan O'Brien - The World's Greatest Athlete - A Transracially Adopted Hero
Interviewed by Gail Steinberg (1997 | 390 KB | )
- Feelings of Differentness
by Jean Benward (1994 | 106 KB | )
- Film Reviews: Adopted & We Can Do Better
by Pact (2009 | 253 KB | )
- Film Review: Wo Ai Ni Mommy
by Michele Rabkin (2010 | 115 KB | )
- Forgotten Child
by Lynn Calza (1998 | 112 KB | )
- Fostering the Autonomy of the Adopted Person
by Susan Harris (1995 | 317 KB | )
- Four Lifelong Issues in Adoption
by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (2007 | 116 KB | )
- Hambun-Hambun
by Susan Ito (1995 | 339 KB | )
- How Adoption Has Shaped My Life
by Joyce Maguire Pavao (1994 | 335 KB | )
- I Never Thought of It Before - I Was Someone Else Before I Was Me
by Lori Clemmons (1997 | 112 KB | )
- If The Shoe Doesn't Fit
by Gail Steinberg (1995 | 131 KB | )
- If You're Color Blind, How Do You See Me?
by Kevin Hofmann (2012 | 101 KB | )
- Kinship Style - Open, Closed, or Shifting
by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall (1994 | 104 KB | )
- Multicultural Identities in the Making:
You Are What You Speak
by John Raible (2009 | 120 KB | )
- My Crooked Family Tree
by Lynn Calza (2007 | 105 KB | )
- My Dog Story
by Penny Callan Partridge (1997 | 301 KB | )
- My Name Is Roxanne
by Roxanne Agur (1995 | 110 KB | )
- Narrative Burden: Adoptees Responses to Outsiders Questions
by Robert Ballard (2010 | 60 KB | )
- Never
by Ellwyn Kauffman (2010 | 304 KB | )
- Non-Adoptee Privilege
by Kelly Reineke (2009 | 67 KB | )
- Not Just "White Parents with Kids of Color" - The Importance of Racial Identity Work for Parents
by Gina Miranda Samuels, Ph.D., MSSW (2012 | 129 KB | )
- On Being Adopted Older with "Special Needs"
by Carol DeMuth (1997 | 349 KB | )
- One of Them
by Kirstin Nelson (2004 | 88 KB | )
- Pact Camp Offers Parenting Insights FCC Northern California, Summer 2006
by Annie Stuart (2006 | 66 KB | )
- Pact's Perspective on Therapy and Adoption
by Jeannie Lin in collaboration with Pact staff (2004 | 340 KB | )
- Perspectives on Transracial Adoption - Transracially Adopted Child's Bill of Right
by Liza Steinberg (2003 | 63 KB | )
- Positive Discipline
by Lisa Kelly (2010 | 329 KB | )
- Prenatal Trauma and the Adoptee Experience
by Sally Clark (1996 | 112 KB | )
- Promoting Understanding of Adoption Issues
by Patricia Irwin Johnston (1993 | 337 KB | )
- Quien Yo Soy? Identity Issues in Trans-ethnically Adopted Children
by Beth Hall (1992 | 108 KB | )
- Recognizing Loss
Becca Martinson (1994 | 106 KB | )
- Rejoice in What Unites Us - Creating Kinship Systems
by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (1994 | 110 KB | )
- Rethinking Fit in the Context of Transracial Adoption
by Julia Sudbury Oparah (1998 | 60 KB | )
- Searching for Me
by Lynne Connor (2008 | 114 KB | )
- So You Want To Open Your Child's Adoption
by Leslie Foge (2004 | 332 KB | )
- Straight Talk
by Liza Steinberg (1996 | 95 KB | )
- Teaching Culture Understanding the Complexities
by Lisa Marie Rollins (2007 | 104 KB | )
- Teen Corner: A Letter From My Heart
by Melissa Cunningham (2010 | 327 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Adopted Teens Speak Out
by Pact Teen Club (2009 | 373 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Dominique's Journey
by Dominique Parker (2005 | 94 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Making Sense of Living Transracially
by Ryo and Jake (2010 | 53 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Mission Possible
by Rabia Cons (2008 | 83 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Picture Me
by Sofia Arroyo (2005 | 72 KB | )
- Teen Corner: Psychological Heavy Lifting
by Lilah Goldthwaite (2008 | 350 KB | )
- Teen Corner: TRA (Transracial Adoptee) Understanding and Love
by Sara Blair (2007 | 83 KB | )
- That Time of Year
by Penny Callan Partride (1998 | 306 KB | )
- The Art & Soul of Adoption & Foster Care: Expressive Means to Communication and Healing
by Joyce Maguire Pavao (2010 | 330 KB | )
- The Benefits of Pact Camp
by John Raible (2009 | 132 KB | )
- The Lifelong Impact of Adoption
by Marlou Russell (1995 | 309 KB | )
- The Name Game
by Jae Ran Kim (2007 | 327 KB | )
- The Spirituality of Adoption
by Father Thomas Brosnan (1996 | 113 KB | )
- Two Stories of Reunion
A Review by Susan Ito (2011 | 122 KB | )
- Unknown - I Was Adopted
by Liza Steinberg (1996 | 106 KB | )
- When I First Started Thinking About It
by Liza Steinberg Triggs (1995 | 101 KB | )
- Whoness - A Question of Identity
by Nasoan Sheftel-Gomes (1995 | 104 KB | )
- Whose Birth Certificate is it Anyway?
by Pam Hasegawa (1997 | 331 KB | )
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