Current Work On Adoption

Writings about Adoption

"Untangling Nature and Nurture, The Creole Son on Growing Up Mixed Race," by Marc Trimberger on my Psychology Today blog Adoption Diaries. April 18, 2020. 

"Untangling Nature and Nurture, The Addiction: part 2, The Creole Son Talks about his Addiction” by Marc Trimberger on my Psychology Today blog Adoption Diaries. May 04 ,2020.  

“A Different Kind of Family,"  in Marjorie Penn Lasky (ed), You’re Doing What? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure.” ( Berkeley, California: Regent Press, 2018)

My Blog, Adoption Diaries: Adult Relationships in Adoptive Families  on Psychology Today

Huffington Post Blogs including “Genetics and Adoption: Implications for Adoptive Parents” and others.

Guest Blog on Psychology Today, “Challenges of Single Adoptive Parenting,”

Guest Blog on Psychology Today, “Adoption and Class Differences”

Book review of By Blood by Ellen Ullman, Adoption and Culture, Vol. 4, 2014, pp 257-259.

Conference Talks about Adoption

All talks for 2020 canceled because of corona virus pandemic.

“From Open Adoption to Extended Kin,” talk for 7th biannual conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, Oakland, California, October,  2018

“Bringing Adoptive Parents’ Voices Out of the Closet: Memoirs by Adoptive Parents of Adoptees Who Are Adults,” 6th Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption & Culture, Minneapolis, October, 2016.

Organizer and discussant for a panel entitled "The Myth of Nurture in Adoption Outcomes and the Reality of the Interaction of Genes and Environment," Ninth, Biennial Adoption Initiative Conference, presented by St. John's University and Montclair State University, June 11, 2016.

”You’re Not a Racist, but You are a Classist,” talk to be presented in May 2014 at the 8th Biannual Adoption Initiative Conference at St John’s University in New York City.

Organizer and speaker on a panel entitled “Crossing Boundaries: Adoption Researcher and Adoptee/ Adoptive Parent: How does our personal experience influence our research and visa-a-versa.” for the March 2014 5th International Conference of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, Tallahassee, Florida.

“Addiction, Reunion and Open Adoption,” paper presented in April 2013 at the 5th annual New Worlds of Adoption Conference at the Rudd Adoption Research Program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

“How Behavioral Genetics Can Change the Culture of Adoption,” paper presented in March 2012 at the 4th International Conference of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, Claremont California