Tag: racism
Whiteness Protected My Parents Each Time the Police Were Called
Welcome to 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days, hosted by Portrait of an Adoption. This series will feature guest posts by people with widely varying adoption experiences and perspectives. Whiteness protected my parents each time the police were called. By Anonymous When I first learned about disproportionality in foster care while sitting in a graduate... Read more »
Kinship Care Works; Kinship Care Matters. If They Could See My Boys Now!
Welcome to 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days, hosted by Portrait of an Adoption. This series will feature guest posts by people with widely varying adoption experiences and perspectives. By Stephanie Jessie Adoption is about legacy. As an African-American, kinship caregiving has always been part of our culture. It was often informal, without the involvement... Read more »
Trump, Football Players, and Little House on the Prairie: How Current Events and Historical Perspective Teach Us About Racism
My youngest daughter is reading the Little House on the Prairie books, a series that I absolutely loved as a child. When I read the series over thirty years ago, I marveled at the charm and hardship of life as a pioneer. I remembered how Pa and Ma had to make every last thing from... Read more »
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A Cautionary Tale: Choosing The Right Side of History in America
The following short story is a work of fiction. It features entirely fictional characters and is based on true events in America. It is subtle at times. After all, you can still walk into the grocery store and see row after row of food. You can still go to the movies and marvel over the... Read more »
Women's March on Chicago: A Movement, Not A Moment.
We met early in the morning with a group of friends, about thirty of us in all. The younger kids all wrote their moms’ phone numbers on their arms with a Sharpie. The moms and dads carried backpacks full of snacks, sunglasses, water bottles, and sunblock (yes, sunblock for January in Chicago – climate change is... Read more »
When Our Daughter Has Racist Encounters
Welcome to the sixth annual acclaimed series, 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days, hosted by Portrait of an Adoption. Designed to give a voice to the many different perspectives of adoption, this series will feature guest posts by people with widely varying experiences. By Anne Moody One thing that can catch interracial adoptive families... Read more »
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30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days – 2017
Meet The Blogger

Carrie Goldman
I am a writer, artist, wife and mother of three fantastic girls! My new children's adoption book is Jazzy's Quest: Adopted and Amazing, and my adult nonfiction book is Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs To Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear. And I LOVE chocolate!
Recent posts
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A Tale of Two Families »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 30, 2020 at 5:24 am -
The Complicated Process of Saying Goodbye »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 29, 2020 at 5:56 pm -
We Give Our Kids Pieces of Ourselves, and We Watch Them Go. »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 29, 2020 at 5:02 am -
Trying to Help My Daughter Through Remote Learning »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 28, 2020 at 5:55 am -
Rooted in Adoption »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 27, 2020 at 5:42 am
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