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Originally Posted by christiangirl
Until you mentioned it, I didn't realize how many adoptions there were in my family.
Aunt A: adopted 1 girl
Aunt B: adopted 1 girl
Aunt/Uncle: adopted a boy
There are different methods of adoptions than just going through agencies, though. Aunt A took legal guardianship of a friend's daughter in addition to the one she adopted. One of my cousins just took guardianship of a friend's 17-year-old son. I don't see a lot of black families (excluding my own) going to agencies for children but rather taking in friends' or relatives' children so they don't end up in the system. I'm know this happens frequently in all cultures, but I can only speak for my own when I say maybe there's a higher rate/increase in these types of adoptions (thus partially explaining the low number of black families in the agency pool)?
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I'm more familiar with this. Adopting kids to keep them out of the system has always been well-known within the community. On one local news station, I swear every story manages to mention who is whose child in the house where an incident occurs without fail.