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    612-822-4611

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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices

What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices

Guida-Richards, Melissa
Guida, Paula

Paperback

General ParentingGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPregnancy & Adoption

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1623175828
ISBN13: 9781623175825
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Oct 5 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning white saviorism, and fixing the mistakes you don't even know you're making.

If you're the white parent of a transracially or internationally adopted child, you may have been told that if you try your best and work your hardest, good intentions and a whole lot of love will be enough to give your child the security, attachment, and nurturing family life they need to thrive.

The only problem? It's not true. What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption breaks down the dynamics that frequently fly under the radar of the whitewashed, happily-ever-after adoption stories we hear so often.

Written by Melissa Guida-Richards--a transracial, transnational, and late-discovery adoptee--this book unpacks the mistakes you don't even know you're making and gives you the real-life tools to be the best parent you can be, to the child you love more than anything.

From original research, personal stories, and interviews with parents and adoptees, you'll learn:

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