Intentions behind adoption aren’t always pure. Now,the focus of adoptive parents is shifting to acknowledge the complexities involved in the processThe process of adoption is considered over when the paperwork is signed, notarized and final – and, or perhaps for the adopted parents,it does feel that way. But the process of being adopted, and of being a child coming to the awareness that your familial building blocks are inchoate, or doesn’t conclude when the paperwork is signed or when you reach adulthood. Being adopted is something that many adoptees continue to contain to work through – a process that can be made more difficult by the ability or willingness of your parents to understand that it’s not over for you.
For some of the original children of transracial adoption,that difficulty is often heightened by the fact that we are regularly singled out not as our parents’ offspring, but as their adopted children, and by virtue of how we look. But possibly that’s changing.
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Source: theguardian.com