Stories
Learning to Be Different – My Transracial Adoption Story
“People often ask me how old I was when I knew I was adopted, and I laugh as I spell out that it’s not really something you can hide in transracial adoption.” This adoption story by guest writer Alex Romero explores steps her parents took to support her heritage.
Read MoreAdoptee Voices Heard at “Voices Unheard!”
BPAR’s first Voices Unheard event for sharing adult adoptee voices took place on November 12, 2019. The event, which helped raise awareness of post adoption thoughts and emotions, gave deeper understanding and insight to the friends and families of those who are adopted or who had grown up or spent parts of their lives in foster care.
Read MoreNational Adoption Awareness Month
Adoption is a lifelong journey and we are on our own individual path. In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, our founder tells her own post adoption story and encourages other adult adoptees to say: “This is really hard but I want to come through this. I want to make sense of this journey and I want to heal from its impact. I want to live in a better way. I want to move forward.”
Read MorePuzzle Pieces: Identity and My Birth Mother Search
As adoptees try to piece together the puzzle of their identities, they begin to ask questions. Why did my birth mother give me up? Does she ever think about me? Does my birthday carry any significance to her? Our guest writer shares her international journey to answer these questions and precious moments of reunion between her adoptive family and birth family.
Read MoreBack to the Beginning
Unexpectedly, a child’s birth country visit unlocked worries and fears. BPAR clinician Maya Rogers-Bursen explores her childhood nightmares and the assumptions she was too young to articulate when her adoptive family took her and her sister to India.
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