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Old 03-20-2006, 03:22 PM
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I'm certainly not suggesting that transracial adoptees can't be raised properly by their parents. But I'd point out Casey, that there are many biracial children who've been raised in all white households (where bio parent remarried etc.) who have some of the same problems transracial adoptees have had (particularly when they have not been raised with or around their minority relatives).

In a lot of ways, I think transracial adoptive parents are more attuned to these issues than some bio parents. As an example, my half sister's mom was Mexican. She and my dad had three children together, then my pseudo-stepmom had a child with a white guy, then later married a latin guy. Of course, it was the white-looking child that everyone always assumed was adopted and it was tough on the child to be singled out that way or to identify herself as anything other than a minority (even tho no one else saw her that way), so it does work both ways.
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