A Guide for White Parents of BIPOC 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.

Every adopted child carries invisible threads of curiosity—questions about where they came from, who their birth family might be, and what life could have looked like in a different world. This inner world is what psychologist Betty Jean Lifton called the “Ghost Kingdom”...an imagined space where children fill in the blanks of their story.

Discover wildfire mental health support for children with Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Explore 6 interventions to foster resilience and stability.