I was reading a few articles about black and biracial babies being adopted. Many stated that biracials were the least wanted, even less wanted than black babies. Tiffany of Mulatto Diaries even makes mention of this, herself, about the lack of adoptions for biracial babies.
I was surprised...maybe it was the logic in me, but it seemed as though, at least in my eyes, people would want a biracial baby more than a black, because some people have become conditioned to think when they see a white mom (or dad) and then a brown skinned child, they assume its theirs because of interracial relationship at one point in the past. Most would not assume adoption at all, because it may not be obvious to the stranger.
And isn't that the point of adopting, especially within your own race? The last thing you want is to make it clear from the get go that they are not biologically yours....
White people raising biracial or black is going to be hard naturally. But i guess the reason I thought biracials were adopted more was because, its more common to see biological biracial kids with a white parent...It just seems easier to adopt someone half white, than to adopt an actual black kid, if you are white.
I recently read an article that talked about how people from other countries come to America, to adopt black kids and biracial kids, because no one wants them in America. Its weird...Americans think they are saving Asian kids and even African kids (you know celebrity adoptions), from a terrible fate, and in a sense exerting their "America is superior" attitude while doing it, yet people from other countries put reality back into perspective. What does it say for a country, when you adopt from other countries, but other countries have to adopt the unwanted children of your own country?
It makes me think about the abortion debate...sometimes one can't help but ask if minority children are better off being aborted...cause they may have it bad raised in a home that doesn't want them...and then there is the possibility of spending your whole life in a foster home, and who knows how that person will come out afterwords...
I won't get into my opinions of the debate or talk about abortion any further, I am simply stating that it does make one understand more why some opt for abortion....
Apparently the US wants to make it harder for foreigners to be able to adopt black kids...which I feel is wrong, because Americans sure aren't adopting them. They prefer other "saving" other countries over their own....I think America is just too embarrassed about having to be saved by other countries, because many Americans feel they should be the Saviors of the World.
In the end though, it does seem kind of backwards to me that biracials are less wanted than black. Although another article stated that light skinned is preffered over dark skinned. So it seems like there are two different articles contradicting one another...I guess all we can say is, if you have any visible blackness in you, then you will more than likely not get adopted.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Biracial babies are less wanted for adoption than black?
Posted by myperspective08 at 9:51 AM
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