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The reason we would prefer AA/CC rather than full AA is because we don't believe that because a child is mixed race they will automatically identify with the darker race. If they do, fine. That's great. We will raise the child as we were raised, and teach them that whatever society believes or makes you think about race, a human is a human is a human, we all look different and act different and assigning race as a more important difference that eye color, hair color, height, etc. is and arbitrary and artificial way to alienate human beings from one another.
We are light-skinned. We don't care what color skin our child has, but feel it would be easier for the child if the child has some similar features to us and was CC/AA rather than full AA.
I'm not apologetic about that, and don't feel I should be. We are all entitled to our opinions, and I know there are a lot of people who think you should be open to full AA if you are open to half but I respectfully disagree.
Regardless, the odds say that a child being placed for adoption, whatever color, will be placed with a CC couple, simply because that is the overwhelming majority of adoptive parents.
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