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Interracial Adoptive Parenting: White Parents with Brown Kids
Interracial Adoptive Parenting: White Parents with Brown Kids
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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Transracial adoption is becoming increasingly popular in the US. There are issues unique to parenting a child of a different race. Our guest is Dr. Marlene Fine. She is a Professor Emerita from Simmons College in Boston MA specializing in issues related to race, racial identity, and interracial communication, and the co-author with her spouse, Fern Johnson, of The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race. She is the white adoptive mother of two African American sons, both adopted as infants and now ages 24 and 25. She is also a facilitator with the YW Boston Community Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity.
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Highlights
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Released:
Jan 7, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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