Transracial Adoption

When we first started the adoption process, transracial adoption wasn't an option that I had ever thought of. I just assumed we would adopt a white skinned child. I also never considered adopting siblings. I just assumed we would adopt one child at a time. It's not that we were against transracial or sibling adoptions...we just never really thought about it.

Well...you know what happens when you assume. :-)

Being our children came home to us as a multiracial, sibling group, they've never had any race issues amongst each other (or with anyone else for that matter). There was a time that their former foster mother told me about, where Shawna (about 6 years old at the time) expressed an interest in being brown-skinned so she would look like her siblings but other than that, race never played a role in their relationships with each other. Jacqueline & Cimion are biracial, and I've found that they don't connect with one race over the other. They naturally accept both races as part of who they are.

If you're in the process of adoption, take a minute and consider if transracial or sibling group adoption would be something that might work for you and your family. There are always sibling groups in the photolistings...check your states website.

Anyway...I wanted to share some pictures of my family and for some reason, thoughts about transracial adoption were on my mind tonight.

Billy, helping Cimion with his model car.




Getting a daddy hug. :-)




Getting a hug from big sister helps when you're cold.



My girls and & on the plane to NYC a few months ago.



That's us! Just your average unschooling, multiracial family of five that came together through adopting a sibling group of older children.

:-)

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