The journey of transracial adoption on NPR's - 1A

Being separated from your biological parents is a difficult experience.

Those of us who were adopted may have been too young to remember the process, but it’s a fact that follows them well into adulthood.

Now, add race to this equation. Nearly 30 percent of domestic adoptions are transracial. For Latino children, the number of transracial adoptions is 46 percent.

And these numbers don’t include international adoptions which often overlap with transracial adoption.

We talk about what it means when you feel like you don’t fit into your family, how transracial adoptees cope with the double trauma of adoption and racism, and what role the white adoptive parent has in all of this.

GUESTS

• Mia Huijskens -

• Gretchen Huijskens - Aadoptive parent

• Mark Hagland - Author, “Extraordinary Journey: the Lifelong Path of the Transracial and Adoptee;" transracial and international adoptee

• Beth Hall - Co-founder and executive director, Pact; author, "Inside Transracial Adoption"; adoptive parent