Creole Son is the compelling memoir of a single white mother
searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a
happy child into a troubled young adult who struggled with
addiction for decades. The answers, E. Kay Trimberger finds, lie in
both nature and nurture. When five-A day-A old Marco is flown from
Louisiana to California and placed in Trimberger's arms, she
assumes her values and example will be the determining influences
upon her new son's life. Twenty-A six years later, when she helps
him make contact with his Cajun and Creole biological relatives,
she discovers that many of his cognitive and psychological
strengths and difficulties mirror theirs. Using her training as a
sociologist, Trimberger explores behavioral genetics research on
adoptive families. To her relief as well as distress, she learns
that both biological heritage and the environment- and their
interaction- shape adult outcomes. Trimberger shares deeply
personal reflections about raising Marco in Berkeley in the 1980s
and 1990s, with its easy access to drugs and a culture that
condoned their use. She examines her own ignorance about substance
abuse, and also a failed experiment in an alternative family
lifestyle. In an afterword, Marc Trimberger contributes his
perspective, noting a better understanding of his life journey
gained through his mother's research. By telling her story,
Trimberger provides knowledge and support to all parents-
biological and adoptive- with troubled offspring. She ends by
suggesting a new adoption model, one that creates an extended,
integrated family of both biological and adoptive kin.
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