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We've been discussing this on the Yahoo! Group African American Domestic Adoption.
The study is limited to children adopted from foster care. Different states have different training available for their potential parents. Some people have said that they were given advice on parenting transracially, while others said that they got squat.
People who adopted through private agencies often said that they had to take classes, read books, etc. I find it interesting that many private agencies urge, if not outright require, classes and/or training for parents adopting transracially. Apparently, MEPA was somehow construed to mean that no thought of race at all was supposed to be involved in foster adoption, to the extent that it was left out of training in some places.
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-Robyn
mom to Jackson, b. 17 January 2006
private, domestic, open adoption
Antioch, CA
Child #1: Is that your mother?
Child #2: Yes.
Child #1: Why is she white and you are black?
Child #2: Because I am adopted, and black people have more melanin than white people do.
Child #1: Oh, let's go on the high bars.
-Unknown
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