Does anyone think there is a problem with interracial adoption?
I am sorry about the racism you have experienced. Any minority person experiences racism, but to experience it in your own family has to be hurtful in a way I can’t even imagine. I am an adoptive mother. My daughter is Asian, and so is my husband. I am white. I wonder how you think one parent being the same race and one not affects a child? I think that you are right that transracial adoption should require a lot of training. I think that, while there is no way to avoid extra issues in this situation, overt racism can be avoided, and adoptive parents can develop sensitivity to their child’s identity issues. I would never let a racist comment in my extended family fly. They would change their tune fast or loose the privilege of having us in their lives. I didn’t understand the daily, annoying covert racism that minorities experience until I was with my husband. Little things all the time like, if we had a Chinese meal and I bring in leftovers to work, inevitably someone will ask if we h
