Respecting a Child's Background in Adopted or Blended Families.

The Adoptee Mentoring Society, run by Angela Tucker, atransracial adoptee and leading adoption expert, creates aspace for adoptees to connect with one another virtually andlearn to gain agency over their own adoption story(https:// www.adopteementorship.org). Connecting and Learning forAdoptive Parents and Adoptees By connecting adoptive parents to resources insupporting an adoptee, we can begin to change thedialogue around adoption to be adoptee-focused andallow for more understanding for adoptees. Adoptee Connection to the Biological Family A consistent theme in adoptee perspectives is the option foropenness in post adoption contact and access to informationregarding their origin and birth family. [Extracted from the article]