Publications

Here are texts I have written and were published in other sites

Raising Twins in a Mixed Family
Published by We Are Family
My wife is Australian, her background is Filipino, I am Argentinian (I grew up in Spain), my background is largely white European and our kids are Black British. When we started the adoption process, we discussed at length the possibility of transracial adoption. From the perspective of social services, it seemed that an ideal match would be children whose background combined a Southeast Asian country and a Mediterranean one. This brought up one of the main issues for me about this discussion, and that is that the aim appears to be a visual match, it is colour matching not factually matching ethnicities or cultures. 
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The Note
Published by Adoption UK
Excerpt: The moment our twins arrived into our home I began preparing a note: a sort of proof to be shown to anyone daring to question the validity of our family. My background is mainly white European, my wife is Australian and her background is Filipino. Our children are Black British. I feared that we would be stopped by random strangers, and I was anxious about possible confrontational encounters. Time passed, two and a half years now, and the confrontational encounters never came. We have had plenty of inappropriate and intrusive encounters.
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Visbility as an Ethncially Mixed Family
Published by PATCH (Passionate Adopters Targeting Change with Hope)
Excerpt: I am White, my wife is South East Asian and our children are Black, our kids are also twins. We are a very visible family, being part of such family is not a choice our children made, we are conscious of this and we do not forget it. I remain conscious of the fact of my privilege, especially when the other three people that form my family are treated by society as less than.
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The Media and Adoption: Do We Need a Language Guide?
Published by We Are Family
Excerpt: Real. A word that in the world of adoption can have a strong impact. This is because it directly points to the biological connection between children and their parents. In adoption we speak of a triad which includes the adoptee, the biological parents and the adoptive parent/s. All those involved in this triangle have a different link to this biological connection, they may all well understand each other and work hard to do so, yet their needs, experiences and feelings will be vastly different.
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Where Will Automation Take Our Society?
Available in Academia.com
Excerpt: In order to answer this question, we must consider three scenarios, a world where all jobs have been automated, the transition period and whether we may be able to achieve such society or not. Coppola in (Westlake, 2014) claims that the outcome of further technological implementation will depend on the willingness of people to give up job security and how good the system is at educating them. In practice all socio, political and economic theories have failed and become versions of the same thing. In this way, they are all utopic. For the first time in history humans have a realistic possibility of achieving a fairer society. The key to this is automation, freeing people to focus on more aspirational and higher social goals.
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