Description: Adoption-competent. Social Worker. Advocate. Educator. Mother. Adopted person. Korean adopted person/adoptee, adoptive mother.
Adoption-competent social worker, advocate, educator, trainer. Speaker. Writer. Korean-born adult adopted person/adoptee, adoptive mother. Shares at conferences, churches, schools, and for post-adoption groups and organizations. Topics: complexities of adoption that include loss/grief, race/ethnicity, talking with children about adoption,
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When talking with adoptive parents across the country, repeatedly they comment on how adoption inevitably comes up in the classroom setting and they wonder how to discuss adoption with their child's educators. Parents consider if they should even tell their child's teacher about their son or daughter's adoption status because they don't want to draw attention to it or because they fear assumptions will be made. Others wonder how much to share, while transracial adoptive families know from experience that th