Thank you for the article “Transracial adoption fight isn’t just skin deep” (News, July 19). Eyes need to be opened, ears need to hear, and hearts and minds desperately need to at least try to look at this very real, very controversial issue with objectivity.
For the sake of the children who wait, don’t rely on an “old-school” mind-set.
I am a white adoptive mom of two African-American children. Prior to adopting I was working for a foster care agency. I am very well aware of the heated opposition that erupts when families cross societal borders and do not “stick to their own kind,” especially when white parents adopt African-American children. This is not a time to bicker and build the walls that separate the races even higher than they are already. The children are learning from our examples.
There are so many waiting children. What do they really need? Perhaps, if given the chance, they would tell us that they need loving permanent homes now.
Something’s terribly contradictory, wrong and criminal about the claim that the system is working “in the child’s best interest” if, in fact, racial bickering and philosophical differences–or, by chance, political clout?–are the factors preventing permanency for these innocent victims who wait, sometimes for a lifetime.
