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When adoption separates you from cultural heritage

I was adopted by white parents who love me but know nothing about my birth culture and now at eighteen I want to connect but feel like a fraud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Transracial adoption can create a lifelong sense of cultural homelessness that adoption love cannot fully heal.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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