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Old 12-01-2008, 10:23 PM
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excellent article on transracial adoption...

mostly focusing on white adoptive parents of black kids, but totally relevant to all of us navigating the complexities of racial and cultural difference in our families:


"Black Kids in White Houses" - On Race, Silence, and the Changing American Family - by Jen Graves



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Old 12-02-2008, 05:30 AM
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Excellent piece. Thanks for sharing.
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4/5 DNA comes back 99.2% - told there is a mutation and yet another sample is taken
4/6 My beautiful mother passes into eternity
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5/11 Submitted to PGN
5/30 DNA 99.9% from lab US embassy accepts
6/23-6/30 Visit trip!
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10/29 Going to foster
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Old 12-02-2008, 07:24 AM
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Powerful & interesting. And I took the test they reference.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implici...turedtask.html

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Old 12-02-2008, 10:01 AM
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This is a great article - thank you.
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Old 12-02-2008, 11:31 AM
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Thanks for sharing this--very interesting and thought-provoking.

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i was just going to post this. GREAT article.
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Very interesting and yes, I took the test.
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