Embrace the beauty and challenges of transracial adoption.
Being an adoptive parent is hard enough. But when your family is multiracial, things get even trickier. Parenting transracially doesnât come naturally, nor does it just happen with time. Love is essentialâyet by itself, love isnât enough. Cross-cultural parenting also takes intentionality, listening, learning, growing, repenting, changing . . . then starting all over and doing it again. Itâs hard work! And yet, when an adoptive family honors the ethnic heritages of their children, the whole familyâas well as the watching worldâgets to see the beauty of a gloriously creative God.
In It Takes More Than Love, Brittany Salmon shares her own familyâs story of transracial adoption and offers a biblically-based guide for others following the same path. Brittany recognizes that we live in divided times and there are extra challenges whenever race is part of the conversation. But with wise insight and hard-won experience, she provides guidance about topics such as:
Maintaining a Gospel perspective throughout the journey Celebrating your childâs history and heritage Confronting racism Responding to comments about your family Avoiding pitfalls in adoption Helping your kids feel represented in your home and community
No one is promising transracial adoption will be easyâleast of all Brittany! Yet the extra effort is balanced by a beauty that images our eternal destiny. Until the day God makes all things new, the welcoming an inclusive transracial family can help fulfill Jesusâs words, âon earth as it is in heaven.â