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Identity crisis interuptus

By Rachel | August 30, 2010August 30, 2010 by Rachel

I was speaking to a neighbor the other day (who is Jewish) who said she was born black and therefore has the wrong color skin (she is fair skinned). Another friend who sent me an article about adoption, about the guy who adopted two Chinese girls and wrote a book about it, said the guy had also mentioned a boy who was adopted and who thought he was American Indian. His adopted parents brought him…

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Mirror mirror on the wall

By Rachel | January 11, 2010January 11, 2010 by Rachel

Our promise to Tin is to make sure his life is mirrored in the community he inhabits, that would mean he would know other families who are not the same color, he would know other adopted children, he would know children with same-sex parents, and he would know children of other cultures in order for him to see that families don’t come prepackaged in some standard format but a family is about parents who help…