1. At what age were your child(ren) when adopted?
0-2 __XX_____ 2-5 _______ 5-7 _______ 7+ _______
2. What race are you and your significant other? (If other please explain.)
White X African American X Indian _______ Asian _______
Hispanic _______ Other ______________________________
3. What race is the child(ren) you have adopted? (If other please explain.)
White _______ African American ___X__ Indian _______ Asian _______
Hispanic ________ Other _______________________________
4. How often did you or your child(ren) experience racism personally?
Daily _______ Weekly _______ Monthly _______ Yearly ___X____ Never _______
5. How difficult is it for your child(ren) to face these prejudice experiences?
Very Difficult _______ Difficult _______ Moderately Difficult _______ Easy ___X____
6. Do you teach you child(ren) the history of their culture and stress the importance of maintaining their culture?
Daily _______ Weekly ___X____ Monthly _______ Yearly _______ Never _______
7. My Interracially adopted child(ren) have struggled with their cultural identity.
Strongly Agree _______ Agree _______ Disagree _______ Strongly Disagree _______
8. Overall how do you feel your family has been effected by interracial adoption?
Positive X___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Negative
9. If there are any other comments you would like to voice to help me in my research please do so here. We are an interracial couple. Our children are biracial and AA. We live in a very diverse community with very diverse schools, we attend a black Catholic church in the city, most of our friends are adoptive family and many have adopted transracially. In our family, color is just "no big deal." Both my husband's family (AA) and my family (CC) are laced with much diversity. Our children have a strong sense of self-esteem and an understanding that they also have families that gave birth to them.
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