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Is It Really Time to Choose a College?

The catalogs and post cards started arriving last year—this year, the packets have gotten a bit fatter and there are phone calls too. In fact, the other day a representative from one of the colleges that has made the final cut (for now) on my daughter’s list called just to let her know that they would be on her high school campus for a visit if she wanted to chat or had any questions. While I’ve hoped and anticipated that the day would finally come that college would be on the horizon, it is hard to believe that it is … Continue reading →

Choosing Whether and How to Adopt Transracially–Our Decision

Adoption workers usually advise people considering transracial adoption to consider how their families and communities will accept and support a child of a different race, realizing that the child will not be a baby forever–transracial adoption means having a teen-ager and grandchildren of other races. The next question is whether the parents have resources to help the child feel pride in his/her culture, and whether the child will see role models who look like him/herself. We felt that the first issue was not a problem. (In fact my parents had nearly adopted an African-American boy themselves—that adoption never took place … Continue reading →