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Originally Posted by anarchamama
I am having a lot of trouble finding any information about the adoption of non-white children in canada? DH and I would like to adopt an infant, but are open to age and race. Some sources list race as a "special need" that there is a need for families for and some don't......Can soemone explain this to me. We would be open to adopting an aboriginal infant but I can't even figure out if this is legal in canada or if the bands prefer to keep kids in their care?
Help!
Heather
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Both of our children have some aboriginal heritage and placed with us at birth by their first mothers through a private agency, open adoption in Alberta. Although they both are of mixed heritage, our profiles would not have been shown to their first parents had we not been open to aboriginal heritage. We were told that there were much fewer families willing to consider children of aboriginal heritage.
Neither situation was any trouble. Our DS is registered with his band because his first mother is. He will get the same rights and privileges as other aboriginals from his band. We will not have contact with them however, just his first mother and brother. With DD, her first mother was not registered so she is not either. Both first mothers were not living on a reserve. I understand (we waited with Alberta Children's Services as well) that that all efforts are made to keep children born in the community in that community, whether it be on a reserve or otherwise. If there isn't a proper home for them there, then they look outside the community. At least in Alberta there is an almost separate system for children of aboriginal heritage.
I don't remember where you are from. We had great help with our agency in understanding this. NOt so great with the province. Had to do lots of research ourselves.
But it can be done...