I want my son to know that I am the kind of parent who will listen to anything he needs to tell me. I want him to know that he can come to me with any issue and we’ll work through it. However, I know that he won’t always come to me – that’s about the only given in parenting.

Reading stories together is a great way to introduce some of the tougher topics. You might find that even the younger children have been thinking about some of the big ones and didn’t know how to tell you. When I was small, there were very few books out there for Korean adoptees, but now libraries and on-line... more

Somebody’s Daughter, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, is a novel that tells two stories. For someone who is not a Korean adoptee, Marie Lee did her research because she was able to capture the many emotions of Korean adoption with her words.

There are two stories in this novel. The first is the story of Sarah – a young Korean adoptee who is struggling with her identity. Sarah’s search leads her to study in Korea where she learns some hard lessons about who she is as she realizes that just as she doesn’t feel a part of her family in America because of the way she looks, she also doesn’t feel a part of Korea... more