bruhnette 's review for:

What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption--The Workbook: Practical Tools, Skills, and Prompts for Affirming Your Adopted Child's Cultural Identity by Melissa Guida-Richards

4.5

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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 This is the book that I wish would be required reading for all pre-adoptive and foster parents considering adopting or fostering transracially. My husband and I worked with 2 different agencies in 2 different states to adopt our children. Neither agency had any requirement for any kind of education on race, culture, or transracial adoption. Thankfully, we found resources on our own and have done the work and learning that needed to be done. Still, I wish I would have had this workbook and its companion book What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices.   This workbook guides parents and prospective parents through questions and activities on topics of race and racism, birthparent beliefs. trauma, and more.

Thanks to North Atlantic Books and NetGalley for a review copy of this book.