January, 2008 -- now
available --
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A monograph of six articles
entitled,
Heritage
Support for Our Internationally-Adoptive Child: The Child's Need
and the Parent's Response
The articles, from past issues of China Connection, are updated and accompanied by an introduction and brief book list.
Article titles:
The Need for Chinese Cultural
Support for Our Children
The Importance of Distinguishing Heritage and Culture
To Support Pride in Heritage
Heritage Support: the Job Description
Heritage and Ethnicity Affirmation: Do it Later?
Heritage Support -- A Practical List
| From the
Introduction: Over the decade-plus period in which I have been a China-adoptive parent and have read and written about all aspects of adoption, the tendency for certain issues or facets of issues in adoption and adoptive parenting to be unnoticed, like well camouflaged animals in the wild, has become apparent. The subject of the China-adoptive child's heritage and the need and manner of the adoptive parent's response to that heritage is not highly complex, yet it has several aspects which, if not actually invisible, are often overlooked. ----------------------- Bob Crawford, Co-editor, ------------------------China Connection |
| This
monograph is available for $12, mailing included. Inquire to bcrawf@infionline.net |