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I saw the show and was somewhat entranced by it. I was not distressed by the language. I actually thought the parents were handling the situation quite well. I was impressed with how they were building self esteem in their children. I was a little distressed about the comment that they were sad that they lost touch with bio dad because he could have tought the black child what it was like to be a black man. Surely they can find another role model. But I agree, there just aren't many black people in the netherlands. There are parts of this country where it would be hard to find black people as role models as well.
I am really struck with these people's courage. Many of us go into adoption planning and prepared for a transracial adoption but to have adoption forced upon you in a geographic area that is not used to transracial families is really shocking.
Also, I thought it was interesting that there was very little focus on problems the black boy faced because of racism. It seemed his bigger problem was the non-twin comments.
Jen
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