Yes, he really is my brother.
Angalina Taylor, Muscatine, IA I come from a white family but I have an African brother. we adopted him when her was a year old...
A transnational adoptee, consumed by “in-betweenity.”
Rebecca York, Takoma Park, MD Fighting for visibility and validity, in white and of-color spaces is perpetually exhausting. Transnational adoptees are at the heart of...
My Speech Doesn’t Define My Skin
Ari Wiggins, Des Moines (DMACC), IA I chose this phrase because throughout my childhood and adulthood I am asked often about the way I talk....
White indigenous girl adopted white family
Hannah Anderson, Southeastern Community College, IA >My upbringing was different than most, I visited a majority of North America by 13. As a child I...
My history was taken from me
Kat Schmoker, Lubbock, TX I was adopted when I was 18 months and was never given the chance to get to know my identity with...
White family, black children majority, white child minority
Bill Taylor, Middleton, WI My seven words express what our children have said to us. My wife and I are white, around 79 years old,...
Adopted but am I still Mexican
Kasey Nichols, Clemmons, NC. I’ve known I’ve been adopted since I can remember and never questioned my ethnicity until I reached middle school age because...
Scared that we are not enough
Tanya, Manakin Sabot, VA. My (adopted) son is biracial, his bio-father is unknown. I will never be able to connect him with his biological African...
You’re not white, What are you?
Sheena Biggerstaff Atlanta, GA I get this statement/question combo all the time. It’s amazing how many different races I’ve been grouped into by people trying...
Two white dads. Three black kids.
Jack Montgomery, Washington, DC. My husband and I got married and adopted three beautiful children on the same day last summer. Happy times! I have...
Adopted, how much did she cost?
Gail O’Rourke Brooklyn, NY White Mom + Chinese daughter: Said right in my face, with my 5 year old daughter in my lap. She clutched...
As Korean as you are Korean
Tesha Post, Holland, MI. I was adopted from Korea when I was six months old and grew up living in the U.S. with my White...
That girl spat in my eye.
Caprice Becker, Manhattan, KS. I was in High School in a very small town of about 1300 mostly descended from German immigrants in the 1870s,...
Tight Black curls line the tub
Jan Landis, Portland, OR Our family raised a Black boy, along with our own 5 children. It always amused me when I cleaned the tub...
Your family isn’t your “real” family
Anonymous, Des Moiones, IA. Drake University This is what my mom was told in 1954 when social services came into her home and removed her...
My children can never be president.
Barbara Lewis Madison, AL It has been said that one thing that makes this country great is that any child can grow up to be...
My asian kids aren’t like me.
Sheree King Johnson City, TN My kids, adopted from China, now ages 14 & 16 not only don’t look like me, but deal with issues...
