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i am in the process of adopting my bi-racial foster son. other foster parents and i have formed our own mini support group and the children are of all different races. this is helpful to me because i can learn how others handle diffent situations and learn from their experiences. people have given me trouble about what i have choosen to name him because they say he is not an irish catholic (his name sounds irish catholic). my reply is yes he is. now that he is adopted by me, he is part of an irish catholic family. that being said. it is very important to me that he is culturally diverse, and i will never ignore or discount his aa heritage nor his italian heritage (birth mom is italian). while he is only 1 1/2, i have already started looking at schools in the area that have culturally diverse student populations as well as curriculm. i realize that we will face questions the rest of our lives, but the most important part for me is that we always have an open line of communication and he has the strenth and conviction to answer any quesitons thrown at him. i am not sure if i answered your question, but i can tell you one thing, i would not change one bit of my son.
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