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Karen Peters - Parenting Within Interracial Adoption
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Why You Should Listen to This Episode
If you’ve ever thought about what it truly means to be an ally — not just in words, but in the daily, lived work of parenting — this episode will stay with you. Karen Peters and her husband Chris chose to grow their family through adoption, and what followed was an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and ultimately beautiful journey of learning. From actively dismantling their own white privilege to celebrating and instilling Black culture and identity in their daughters, Karen speaks with honesty and courage about what it means to love without limits — and to keep learning.
In this episode:
Karen Peters, Registered Clinical Counsellor, opens up about the decision she and her husband Chris made to grow their family through adoption — and what that choice revealed about themselves. Karen shines a light on the profound and sometimes painful experience of parenting interracially, including the work they have done to actively dismantle their white privilege while celebrating and instilling Black culture and identity in their daughters. She also shares the unexpected gifts that came through maintaining an open adoption and nurturing an ongoing relationship with the birth families of both girls.
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