How Do You Manage Intrusive Questions about Your Adopted, Foster, or Kinship Child? – brought to you by our friends from Creating A Family!

 Source: creatingafamily.org

Are you a conspicuous family? Do you and your kids “match?” Do you show up at community events with a new kid in tow occasionally? Many adoptive, foster, and kinship families face the challenge of intrusive questions when they are obviously of different races or ethnicities from one another. Foster families commonly face intrusive questions when they get new placements joining their home. Though we live in the perspective that families form in many different ways, society around us often still asks nosy questions about who we are and how we built our family.

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