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When Adoptive Parents Cannot Provide Cultural Connection

My adopted daughter asks about her birth culture but I am a white parent who knows nothing about Korean traditions, and Google searches feel inadequate and appropriative.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Transracial adoption creates unbridgeable gaps between parent capacity and child needs for cultural identity and belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.