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That's just it red...
Having a same race placement does not mean that a creative, open and curious child will be raised in a stiffling, narrow minded and judgmental household or that a happy and optimistic child will be raised in a negative and overly pessimistic one. Those variables still exist. It means simply means that a child might avoid yet another potential loss.
I hope that you're right, that the basic personality of a child is more important than race, I really do. As a black woman in the U.S., I don't believe it (feel it in my heart), but I wish it to be so. This latest generation of adoptees will test all of the current thinking in ways I don't think any of us can fully appreciate now. Who knows what they will say.
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Sad to be moving on... humbled by knowledge.
If we have been spared knowing this sin or that, it is the grace of God alone which has protected us, not any virtuous excellence of our own character.
--David C. Reardon
Last edited by sneezyone : 03-20-2006 at 03:14 PM.
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