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When Your Child First Notices Race

Instilling a positive racial identity in your transracially adopted child will help her develop into a secure, tolerant adult.

by Sophia Chin

TAGS: Racial Identity, School, Talking About Race, Talking with Kids About Adoption, Transracial Adoption

• Racial Identity
• Transracial

June 1, 2007

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