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Blended Families: Adopting new identities

Some children are born from their parents’ hearts, and the adoptive family’s race or ethnic background may be different from their child’s. In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Standing in Solidarity discusses transnational adoption and its effect on identity, acculturation, family ties and more.

The PSEG Social Impact film is First Person Plural, a documentary produced by Deann Borshay Liem who was adopted by a white family from an orphanage in Korea. The film tells the story of her startling revelation that she was not who everybody thought she was, and how she navigated relationships with her biological and adoptive families.