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Setting back adoption 100 yrs--rant
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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 158843" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>As a white parent of 4 black children, I can see both sides of the picture. My older children had been available for adoption for over a year (and in foster care over 3 years) when we adopted them. They needed a family - it didn't matter if we were purple. But, the sheer lack of preparation and support made our journey a difficult one -- and I am very good at searching out solutions. It would have been nice to have more classes on transracial parenting. I, too, shutter whenever the NABSW get involved. I don't think that race should be the overriding factor, I understand that when it was allowed to be a factor it became the #1 factor, but transracial parenting does have its own degree of difficulty and it would be better for all if more training could be mandated - even if all pre-adopt foster parents needed to be required to take the classes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 158843, member: 1169"] As a white parent of 4 black children, I can see both sides of the picture. My older children had been available for adoption for over a year (and in foster care over 3 years) when we adopted them. They needed a family - it didn't matter if we were purple. But, the sheer lack of preparation and support made our journey a difficult one -- and I am very good at searching out solutions. It would have been nice to have more classes on transracial parenting. I, too, shutter whenever the NABSW get involved. I don't think that race should be the overriding factor, I understand that when it was allowed to be a factor it became the #1 factor, but transracial parenting does have its own degree of difficulty and it would be better for all if more training could be mandated - even if all pre-adopt foster parents needed to be required to take the classes. [/QUOTE]
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