A Guide for White Parents of Mexican Adoptees Facing Political Trauma. Even if your child isn’t directly affected, the trauma of hearing about kids in cages or deported parents can reawaken their own fears of abandonment and loss. Many transracial adoptees grow up feeling like they don’t quite belong at home, at school, or in their community. When injustices happen to “people who look like me,” they feel it personally. Racial Identity Trauma is real.
Jeanette writes about many topics related to mental health, growing up in foster care and adoption, foster and adoptive parenting, and best practices in mental health for children, teens, adults, and their families.
