This is a monthly discussion group with pre-assigned topics for February thru December 2013. The format will include a 20 minute presentation on the topic followed by a question & answer session, culminating in a group discussion on the topic. This group is organized by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and adoptive mom with over 10 years experience working for a prominent international adoption agency in the Delaware Valley. All members of the triad are encouraged to come as well as anyone inte …

We are a group of adoptive families and people in many stages of the adoption process. We provide peer support for our adoptees, adoptive parents, and those looking to adopt. We are a diverse group who includes all types of adoption; domestic, international, single parent, same sex adoptions, interracial adoptions.

In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, Linda Goldstein Knowlton's (THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET) deeply moving documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. Of the roughly 80,000 girls who have been adopted from China since 1989—a decade after China implemented its One Child Policy—the film intimately follows four teenagers: Haley, Jenna, Ann, and Fang. These four wise-beyond-their-years, yet typical American teens, revea …