Set your digital recorders for ABC tonight for Find My Family. From the same producer as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Find My Family promises to be a roller coaster ride of emotion. As someone who has been a part of an adoption reunion, I can believe it.

According to ABC's Web site, this is a 6-episode series and it seems to be focusing on reuniting those separated by adoption. The show is narrated by and stars 2 adoptees who work with the family that is searching and the found family to prepare them for the reunion.

Sounds lovely - right? Well, some in the adoption community do not agree with the show based on some of the wording used in the trailers. "Let's find your family" is one sentence that is grating to the Center for Adoption Policy (CAP). They stated that while they support adoption reunion, they feel that the producers of Find My Family have forgotten that adoptees already have families - adoptive families.

Are adoptive families being too sensitive or is this a real concern?

Look for a sneak peek of Find My Family tonight on ABC 9:30, Eastern and Pacific times; 8:30, Central time.

Bring your thoughts back to the blog. I'm anxious to hear your thoughts - from all sides of the triad.

Source:
ABC.com

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Suggested Reading:

Adoption Reunion and the Adoptive Family How Should the Adoptive Family Feel?
My Adoption Reunion Story
Before You Enter Into an Adoption Reunion - for the Adoptee
Before You Enter Into an Adoption Reunion - for Birth Parents

November 21, 2009, marks the 10th year for National Adoption Day. Through the help of adoption professionals, child advocates, judges, and attorneys, thousands of children in foster care will finalize their adoptions and become part of a permanent home and family. The goals for this National Adoption Day include:

• Finalize adoptions from foster care in all 50 states
• Celebrate and honor all families that adopt
• Raise awareness about the 129,000 children in foster care waiting for adoption
• Encourage others to adopt children from foster care
• Build collaboration among local adoption agencies, courts and advocacy organizations

I hope that this National Adoption Day is as successful as the year before. Don't forget to spread the good news with an awesome adoption announcement!

How are you celebrating National Adoption Day?

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute has released the results of a new study regarding interracial adoption. Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption findings may surprise you. Then again - maybe they won't.

The report focused on two-parent, White adoptions of 179 South Korean adoptees and the 156 Caucasian adoptees out of the 468 adopted adults that completed surveys.

I found this report extremely fascinating because of the experiences we've had with culture and adoption. My sister was adopted into a bi-racial home - White/Hispanic. She told me that growing up she assumed that she too was bi-racial. That is the culture she identified with best. She thought that upon meeting her birth family she would discover that she was bi-racial. Nope. To my knowledge, Caucasian only. I wonder how that impacted her identity or did the adoption reunion itself fill in the needed pieces because now - she no longer has to guess or assume?

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Suggested Reading:
My Adoption Reunion Story
Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption
Why Choose an Open Adoption?

Ever have those feelings when you just know something is missing, but you don't know what that something is? I've been feeling that way lately, I keep wandering around, rummaging through drawers, blankly staring at the TV. But I think I've finally figured out what was missing. We haven't heard anything about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt adding to their family. Angelina Jolie hasn't added to her family through adoption since completing the adoption of little Pax from Vietnam in 2007. And she hasn't given birth since the twins joined the Jolie-Pitt crew in July 12, 2008. Well, guess what - she is adopting again! This time Angelina Jolie is looking to adopt a little girl from the Asian country of Syria and her partner, Brad Pitt's name is not on the adoption paperwork. Some are saying this means that Brad Pitt is against the adoption. I think some people have forgotten that Angelina adopted Pax singly as it went against Vietnam law for an unmarried couple to adopt a child. Pitt then adopted Pax once he got home. This could very well be the case with this latest adoption.

Congrats to the family! I'm looking forward to reading more about the new addition to the Jolie-Pitt family.

SOURCES:
Report: Jolie to adopt again
ANGELINA JOLIE - JOLIE TO ADOPT AGAIN - REPORT