[Linny]

I completely agree cjmeck!!!! We've adopted Asian (now grown and on their own) and AA babies. The grown ones, certainly DON'T fall into the categories this study would seem to imply.
We've also adopted through the foster care system. How anyone could equate infant adoptions with (even just a little older) foster care adoptions is beyond me! I spent years telling myself they were the same. Years later, I realized how WRONG I was. Adoption involving the foster care system---passing infants back and forth for months...and private infant adoptions are two separate things...completely.

Don't get me wrong. I think there needs to be a lot of education for parents wanting to adopt transracially. I find the foster care system lacks in everything....especially education in parenting children who've been IN (or STILL in, sadly) the foster care system. My gripe is with the agencies who don't educate at all; or those who have their OWN agenda out there...often feeling that transracial adoptions are bad from the beginning.

Sincerely,

Linny