[Muddypaws]

Just curious about your Home Study and how you prepared, and if you had any issues due to location/ community being homogeneous/ white!

L

[blessedbybug]

Originally Posted by Muddypaws

Just curious about your Home Study and how you prepared, and if you had any issues due to location/ community being homogeneous/ white!

L

We were open to a child of any ethnicity during our wait with DD. Bug looks CC, and the majority of placements by our agency are CC. However, we would NOT have been shown her file if we weren't open to a First Nations placement as Bug's First Mom is part-Metis.

We are waiting for a child of any ethnicity now too, and have been shown to many situations that are of mixed race. We are in a small town that is not overly diverse so we know there will be some challenges if we are blessed this way. However, we also know that there are many ways to help a child know and understand the culture of their ethnicity. It will be our job to make sure he/she feels like they belong in their home and community.

[newbiejo]

I would be open for adopting with any ethnicity-I guess its just a matter of choice- Do you need to make those decisions when doing your homestudy? DH and I have the paperwork but I guess I'm scared to take the next step- still wanting my own - but I'm sure once we get going on the adoption road my feeling will get better- I wish for a miracle everyday!


Jody

[Leigh131313]

For us, we had to decide that in our application...

The "child desired" form had a section for you to check off which races you would be comfortable with.

The only thing mentioned in the homestudy, is what we do to promote their ethnicity if we were placed with a non cc baby....we just said reading and learning about the community, participating in any local events pertaining to the culture...

Our child turned out to be CC.

I found the homestudy VERY easy. It was more of a "get to know you" sort of thing...NOT stressful.




Good luck!!

Leigh

[Muddypaws]

Thanks for your replies! I think our social worker is more concerned about race than we, or the Ministry is likely to be, and we know the agency we hope to use has no issues about it being a trans-racial adoption.

In fact, my predecessor in my job, whol lived in the same house and same community adopted from China when his family moved from here,meaning his hs was done HERE without a problem!

I appreciate thefeedback!

L

[allanacw]

Our daughter is biracial (black/white), we are white. We met her through foster relief and put our names forward, but were told that because we were not a racial match our chances were very low. We're from Ontario and were told it was legislated that CAS had to pursue a racial match first. Obviously, it worked out!

When speaking to our worker about the possibility of adoption #2 (which is now put off by several years because we're expecting a biological baby in Sept.) I told her I would like a little one next. She said because we are now a multi-race family and can do foster to adopt, our chances at a baby, through her networking with other cities, were good.

So anyway, I think you're right...it's the Ministry!