http://adoptive-parenting.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/new-report-on-adoption-and-race-released News and information on parenting the adopted child. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:42:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://adoptive-parenting.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/new-report-on-adoption-and-race-released/comment-page-1#comment-651 Marie Stroughter Thu, 29 May 2008 05:20:53 +0000 http://adoptive-par.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/05/27/new-report-on-adoption-and-race-released#comment-651 Thank you for saying this - I completely agree! Thank you for saying this – I completely agree!

]]> http://adoptive-parenting.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/new-report-on-adoption-and-race-released/comment-page-1#comment-650 jpdakota Thu, 29 May 2008 01:49:41 +0000 http://adoptive-par.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/05/27/new-report-on-adoption-and-race-released#comment-650 I guess I get why adoptive parents so often say they are color blind. It is scary, though. My usual response is, "You'd better not be!" Do people really think that the African American experience is the same as the Caucasian American experience? Or the Native American experience, or Asian American, Hispanic American, etc? It just isn't. I think that honoring someone for who they are, including their race, is a huge part of raising children. Telling a child you don't see their race is an awful lot like telling them you don't see THEM. That's a very big deal in my opinion. I guess I get why adoptive parents so often say they are color blind. It is scary, though. My usual response is, “You’d better not be!” Do people really think that the African American experience is the same as the Caucasian American experience? Or the Native American experience, or Asian American, Hispanic American, etc? It just isn’t. I think that honoring someone for who they are, including their race, is a huge part of raising children. Telling a child you don’t see their race is an awful lot like telling them you don’t see THEM. That’s a very big deal in my opinion.

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