by Robin K. Fox
"In the United States, there are approximately 1.5 million children who have been adopted (US Census Bureau, 2010). Adoption is not a new way to form a family but there have been shifts in adoption practices. Two of those shifts have been the increase in open adoptions (Siegel & Smith, 2012) and an increased understanding of how international adoption can affect children (Niemann & Weiss, 2011). Since the 1970s, and the work of the Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association, there has been an increase in public openness about adoption and the telling of adoption stories (Kayan, 2006). In the United States, adoption is rarely a secret any more, and many children are aware of having been adopted. This means that those professionals who work with children need to be prepared to understand the lived experiences of children who were adopted and those of their families. The stories in this book depict the experiences of teacher educators and illuminate how adoption continues to shape their professional stance. Their narratives reveal the intricate processes they have encountered in forming their own families through adoption, as well as their struggles and triumphs with individual schools and school systems. This work hopes to disrupt the suggestion that "racism, biological normativity, and nationalism remain dominant in U.S. family ideology" (Suter, Reyes & Ballard, p. 48)"--
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