[CubanaYogini]

Samantha, I'm sorry that your sister isn't open to helping her daughter to embrace both of her birth cultures. Perhaps your daughter will help her cousin in some way because of the tools that you have given and will be giving her.

I agree that the transracial training isn't always offered. We didn't have it with our first adoption. But we had to take training to get our second homestudy completed.

The training was *wonderful* for us because we were so open to it. But I felt that it was less about training and more about scaring away the PAP's who had said that they were "open" to race but didn't have a clue about how to not be colorblind. Some of the couples had that "deer in headlights" look after the training.

Perhaps dissuading unprepared PAP's from taking on something that wouldn't be a good situation for the child(ren) is not a bad thing.