Surveying adoptive parents will result in getting the views and opinions of adoptive parents. In order to really gauge and address the feelings of adopted persons who live in these ethnically mixed households, one needs to survey, interview and hear from those adopted adolescents and adults. What was Guberman's pre-teen really struggling with? How is her struggle with her Jewish identity different from those of children born into Jewish families? I urge Guberman and Satori, as well as all interested in interracial and transnational adoption issues and how they affect the children who grow into into adults to read: http://familypreservation.blog... There is a WEALTH of information written by adult adoptees, especially Korean, which inform us in a way that no one else can inform. These are the real experts. Hear them. Listen to them. Adoptees such as Jane Jeong Trenka has written three beautiful books; Tobias Hubinette has written some excellent articles. Seek them out. Find blogs by adult adoptees at AdoptionResourceCenter.org. Any family therapists knows that the dynamic of family is more than any one's view. There is FAR, far more to adoption than the view from the adoptive parents! In addition to the adoptive parents and adoptees, there are also members of original families...some of whom are also Jewish! While the majority of those adopted into jewish families are currently coming from overseas, in the past many came from jewish mothers who were pressured by social mores to avoid shaming their families with their untimely pregnancies. I pray you will widen the scope of your research. Mirah Riben, Jewish mother and author who has researched adoption for more than 35 years.
Surveying adoptive parents will result in getting the views and opinions of adoptive parents. In order to really gauge and address the feelings of adopted persons who live in these ethnically mixed households, one needs to survey, interview and hear from those adopted adolescents and adults. What was Guberman's pre-teen really struggling with? How is her struggle with her Jewish identity different from those of children born into Jewish families? I urge Guberman and Satori, as well as all interested in interracial and transnational adoption issues and how they affect the children who grow into into adults to read: http://familypreservation.blog... There is a WEALTH of information written by adult adoptees, especially Korean, which inform us in a way that no one else can inform. These are the real experts. Hear them. Listen to them. Adoptees such as Jane Jeong Trenka has written three beautiful books; Tobias Hubinette has written some excellent articles. Seek them out. Find blogs by adult adoptees at AdoptionResourceCenter.org. Any family therapists knows that the dynamic of family is more than any one's view. There is FAR, far more to adoption than the view from the adoptive parents! In addition to the adoptive parents and adoptees, there are also members of original families...some of whom are also Jewish! While the majority of those adopted into jewish families are currently coming from overseas, in the past many came from jewish mothers who were pressured by social mores to avoid shaming their families with their untimely pregnancies. I pray you will widen the scope of your research. Mirah Riben, Jewish mother and author who has researched adoption for more than 35 years.