I am still very new to adopting and I guess I am just wondering what raising a child of a different race is like? I posted a thread about my desire to adopt from Rwanda earlier, but have not recieved much advice yet. What is it like? Do you recieve alot of criticism from others about being a caucasian raising a child from Africa? What are the most common objections and how do you as a parrent respond and protect your child from the criticism? How do you prepare a biological child for the arrival of a brother or sister that does not look like them? And most of all, please could anyone share with me what it was like those first few months. How does an adopted child deal with a new family, culture, language ect.? I just really want to learn from you all so that I can be the best mommy that I can be to this little one that we want so badly to bring into our family. Please, any advise at all would be welcome and helpful. If it's more convenient write me at
mom81lea@yahoo.com Thanks!---------Leah