Pact has been providing honest, reliable information and assistance to pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted people since 1991. In this section you will find the best of our articles, essays, reviews, and information sheets on a broad range of topics listed below related to adoption, parenting, and race.
Be sure to check out Pact's Video Education series for informative and educational videos on topics that include adoption education and race and transracial adoption.
If you prefer, you can use our Library Search Tool to search by title or author. All the material in this section is copyrighted by Pact; for permission to reproduce or re-post it, please contact us at education@pactadopt.org.
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Informational Resources for: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, Adoptees.
Check out our resources on the following topics:
- Adolescence and Adoption: Teens and Tweens
- Adopted People
- Adopting Across Racial Lines
- Adoption Process
- Adoptive Parents and Parenting
- African/African American Adoption and Identity
- Asian/Asian American Adoption and Identity
- Attachment and Adoption
- Biracial, Multiracial, Interracial Identity in Adoption
- Birth Parents, Birth Families in Adoption
- Blended Families in Adoption
- Books/Reading about Adoption and Race
- Developmental Stages in Understanding Adoption and Race
- Ethics of Adoption
- Extended Family in Adoption
- Family Stories of Adoption
- Film/Video about Adoption and Race
- Foster Care and Foster Adoption
- Grief and Loss in Adoption
- Identity Issues
- Infertility and Adoption
- International and Transnational Adoption
- Latino (Hispanic) Adoption and Identity
- LGBTQ Adoptive Parents
- Medical Issues in Adoption
- Open Adoption/Closed Adoption
- Parenting Issues for Adoptive Families
- Personal Stories of Adoption
- Preparing to Adopt
- Racial Identity
- Racism
- Same-Race Adoption/Adoptive Parents of Color
- Schools and Adoption
- Search and Reunion in Adoption
- Shame and Secrecy in Adoption
- Siblings in Adoption
- Single Adoptive Parents
- Special Needs Adoption
- Talking about Adoption – Language and Strategies
- Talking about Race – Language and Strategies
- Talking with Children about Adoption
- Talking with Children about Race and Racism
- Transracial Adoption/Interracial Adoption
- White Privilege
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