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A Euro-American on a Korean Tour at a Thai Restaurant in China
by Chris Winston
When Euro-American parents adopt children
from other countries their level of
understanding of who they themselves
are will be tested. Their capability in handling
those obstacles that arise in their path will
be an important part of the adoption experience
for their children and for themselves.
With each chapter examining issues that interethnic
adoptive families experience, Chris
Winston weaves her own perspective on her
adoption experience with perspectives related
to her by her own children, adopted adults,
other adoptive parents, birth parents, Koreans,
Korean Americans, and Asian Americans. While
the book’s focus is on experiences with Korean
adoption, the experiences are transferable to
inter-ethnic adoptions from any country.
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Pushing Up The Sky
by Terra Trevor
In 1987, Terra Trevor and her husband Gary
adopted a ten-year-old daughter from South
Korea. Her new daughter experienced difficulty adjusting to becoming the oldest child
in a mixed blood American Indian-Caucasian
family. Her birth daughter, usurped from oldest
to middle child, had a difficult transition too.
Then her son, also adopted from Korea, was
diagnosed with a brain tumor, an event that
changed all of their lives forever.
This is the story of a remarkable family
facing incredible challenges of cancer while
simultaneously figuring out how to weave their
adopted children's Korean heritage and racial
ethnicity into their family. It is a story of
compromises and insights, profound joy, deep
suffering, and terrific rewards. Parenting birth
and adopted children — is one theme of this
book. Most of all, it is a story on the meaning
of family, and learning to let go of expectations
and to forge a new identity.
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