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Originally Posted by bajj
If I choose to adopt again, the agency I will work with here (I moved to a new state, btw) has that requirement where you can't be open to just biracial. I can see why their policy is there.
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So can I and I am glad for it. If people are choosing bi-racial based on the belief that they will get a lighter skinned baby or that it will be somehow easier to bond with a child who is at least half their race, then they should not be adopting transracially at all. If they do not know if they can embrace the
whole child than that child should not be placed with them. I know of a case where the adopting parents of a bi-racial baby brought him back at 2 months old because they "didn't think a bi-racial baby could get so dark." That poor baby should have never been placed with them in the first place.