[lisa in venice]

I have been asked by a friend to do a talk with her this weekend about adoption issues in school. After 17 years as an adoptive mom I honestly can't think of any real issues we have had. We have been very open about our adoptions when the kids were younger as they talked about it pretty freely so I wanted the teachers to know what the deal was and do some preemtive adoption terminology education but in every case not only were the teachers educated but a couple have been adoptive parents AND there has always been at least one other adopted child in the class.

Maybe on the West side of Los Angeles where many people put off childrearing it is adoption is much more common so it has been very normalized. So I come to a wider audeance to seewhat problems any of you have had and how have you dealt with them.

lisa

[NJNative]

We have never had any issues either. My son is now 16, and in 10th grade. So if we were going to have any, I suspect we'd have had them by now. Most of his friends now don't even know he's adopted -- it just never comes up.

He did have an elementary school teacher who had an adopted son, though, and she asked me a bunch of questions. But that was more "adoptive mom to adoptive mom."

Robin