Helping a foster or adopted child stay in contact with members of his or her birth family can be time-consuming and sometimes emotionally draining. Facilitated contact, however, can be valuable [...]

What have I learned about parenting a child with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) over the past 22 years? I have learned that it was not her that needed to make changes. The change needed [...]

Parenting children who have experienced trauma and who have had attachment interruptions drives families to embrace new, creative strategies to help children heal, attach, and thrive. Problematic [...]

When we are parenting children with a history of trauma or—even more commonly—those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), stealing can play out very differently for a variety of reasons.  [...]

Transracial parents, service providers, educators, and others must lean into their personal discomfort and learn to have conversations about race and institutional racism, and work at becoming an [...]

For over two decades, National Adoption Month has been promoted and celebrated every November in communities across the country. Many national, State, and local agencies as well as foster, [...]

Implementing racial and ethnic socialization with your transracially adopted children helps strengthen trust and attachment by showing transracial adoptees that their parents care about, and [...]

Most Black children in the United States encounter racism in their daily lives. Ongoing individual and collective psychological or physical injuries due to exposure and re-exposure to race-based [...]

For children who have experienced separations, loss and trauma, the impact of this pandemic may include any or all emotions that everyone else is experiencing, yet also run deeper. Survival [...]

Adolescents’ thoughts and questions may become more intense because identity formation is one of the main developmental tasks of adolescence. Teens try to figure out who they are by [...]