Help! My Child doesn't look like me ...: Adoptive Parents: Bridging Racial, Ethnic, And Cultural Differences

In recent years families established across national, racial, cultural and ethnic boundaries represent a growing demographic in the United States and are broadening the diversity of family unit forms. International adoptions are comprised of parents who bring into their families a child from another country to a new country with its own diversity challenges. Such families can benefit from supportive information that helps to guide and fortify the family unit. The book, Help! My Child Doesn’t Look Like Me: Adoptive Parents -- Bridging Cultural, Ethnic and Racial Differences, is a tool that assists adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, and introductory professionals with pertinent definitions, instructions, and benefits of embracing multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-racial differences in adopted and pre-adoptive children. These tools are enlightening and will secure the bridge of endearment and acceptance between the adoptee and adoptive parents by dispelling myths and offering strategies for understanding and embracing differences. Moreover, the book helps to successfully nurture trans-racial adoption and healthy international families.

Dr. Cecilia Jarmon Davis-Jackson is a retired English, philosophy, and English as a Second Language teacher (ESL). She has a Master’s Degree in Education and in Clinical Counseling, a Doctorate in Divinity, and has over 30 years of experience educating and counseling international/multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-cultural children and families. Cecilia is an author, inspirational speaker, educational consultant, curriculum developer, founder of Reaching Women and Children of the Nations, intercontinental leader of Kingdom International Nations for Christ, and Co-Founder of “I AM” Fellowship’s Non-Conventional School of Ministry with her husband. Functioning with a passion for practical application, Dr. Jackson cogently inspires audiences of diverse nationalities, ethnicities, and socio-economic variations. Additionally, Cecilia strongly impacts cross-generational groupings. Contact: preachers_dd4@yahoo.com, USA 513.278-7170.