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As with most news articles, it's a pretty one sided view and does not present an entirely accurate picture of things.

Every parent adopting from foster care in the US has to go through training. My state required 20 hours and most states require around the same number I believe. In addition to the 20 hours, we also had to do another 8 hours of reading, watching videos, talking to approved "experts" etc. via our agency.

In our training classes, the racial/cultural aspect was indeed discussed. We watched 2 documentary type videos - one was an adoptee from Korea and the other was an adoptee from foster care who is black. Both were raised in white families and they discussed how they grew up etc. We also had 2 presentations in one of the classes - one an adoptee and one a sw discussing the racial/cultural elements.

There were several parents to be in the class that were given materials and resources to read/view if they were open to different races than their own - just like they did on attachment, drug exposed, kids in foster care from disrupted international adoptions etc.

So to me, that article is not really all that accurate, imo.
Plus...where does it cover anything BUT black children being adopted by white parents? That's a bit racist imo...to single this out? What about non cc parents adopting outside their race? Or any other race being adopted by a cc? Again...the article is lacking in many ways.

Now..if there's something the agencies should offer to parents adopting new borns? I think info is good and if agencies are not providing info on so many different things that can stem from adoption, (and we know they don't) then that is something they should do. But in this article, it focused on foster care and it's not accurately portrayed.