[momtosami]

HI, my husband and I are in the adoption process and I wanted to ask some questions or just see what your thoughts were when you chose bi-racial adoption. We are both Caucasian and we have a daughter who is 5 adopted from Guatemala. Please, if I offend anyone I appologize as that is not my intentions. I am just looking at our options and have been dealing with a lot of different feelings about this.

When you chose to adopt bi-racial did it just come naturally or did you have to really think about it a lot. My husband and I talk about it a lot but I just keep wondering would I be able to raise a child that was Ex: Cau/AA to where they are aware of their heritage, their culture, things that I feel are very important to them. With our daughter we try to keep some of her Guatemalan heritage in her life as much as we can. People tell me that the childs culture would be our culture. I don't know I just feel like me being Caucasian will I be able to teach them things of the AA culture and such. That is just something that is important to me.

How did you all feel? What were some of your thoughts?

Thank you and I hope I did not offend anyone with this post.