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Originally Posted by aspenhall
I would edit it to say, members of the "older" LDS generations, will have a rougher time being accepting of a trans-racial family. There is a lot of intolerance in that older generation. I think your peers will be fine with it, curious, but fine. I grew up in a teeny town and the only kids of a different race in my school, were LDS and adopted...and were QUITE popular. I never saw evidence of unacceptance in our town, which by all stereotypes, should have been the most likely to reject a transracial family.
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That's been our experience too. We live in a town of about 10,000. My dH and I are both of euro ancestry, our son is full blooded hispanic. Since he was adopted (finalized) the week before moving here he talks about how we became a family. NO ONE has ever openly rejected our son.
We had one teacher who is prejudiced and I had to have son removed from care. He was mean spirited, seems to be his pattern. I think that knowing our boy is a former foster kid has it's stigma more than the copper skin and wavy black hair (khaki green eyes...he's adorable).
I think our neighborhood realized that this little guy needed to be included and loved. We got lucky!