Interracial Adoptive Parenting: White Parents with Brown Kids
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - A podcast by Creating a Family
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Transracial adoption is becoming increasingly popular in the US. There are issues unique to parenting a child of a different race. Our guest is Dr. Marlene Fine. She is a Professor Emerita from Simmons College in Boston MA specializing in issues related to race, racial identity, and interracial communication, and the co-author with her spouse, Fern Johnson, of The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race. She is the white adoptive mother of two African American sons, both adopted as infants and now ages 24 and 25. She is also a facilitator with the YW Boston Community Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Blog summary of the show Highlights More Creating a Family resources on interracial adoptive parenting can be found here.
