There are two recent parenting articles that focus on the identities of adopted children. One article in nytimes mag is about what we can learn from gay parents and gender-based expectations of our kids. The other story is about a study that says more than half of 1st gen. of children adopted from South Korea struggled with ethnic identity.

“At no time did I consider myself anything other than white,” said Ms. Young, 48, who lives in San Antonio. “I had no sense of any identity as a Korean woman. Dating an Asian man would have forced me to accept who I was.”

It was not until she was in her 30s that she began to explore her Korean heritage. One night, after going out to celebrate with her husband at the time, she says she broke down and began crying uncontrollably.

Cue overhead sky-cam, focusing on the white-american-korean? woman. Cue rain. With arms wide-spread, she spins and spins. And she raises her head into the sky and yells, “WHO AM I?”