Video Education Series by Pact An Adoption Alliance, an adoption facilitator in California. Hear Pact director and community educator Beth Hall, speak about matters related to secrecy vs privacy in adoption.

1. Secrecy vs Privacy
Who needs to know what in adoption?
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2. Questions to Consider
1. What is the difference between privacy and secrecy? Practice
how you might explain that to a young child.
2. What kinds of information will you plan to share? What
aspect of your child’s story will you keep private?
3. If applicable, how you will you talk to the other children in
your family about their adopted brother or sisters story of
entry into your family (and removal from their birth family)?
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3. To explore whether or not adoptive parenting is
for you, you can sign up for a pre-adoptive
consultation through Pact:
• Deciding to Adopt
• Transracial/Transnational Parenting – Building
Community Across Cultures
• Please make a tax-deductible donation to Pact
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