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Originally Posted by Leslie Anne
Go fuck yourself.
Not necessarily. The baby my sister adopted is Gypsy. In Russia Gypsies are considered to be an entirely different ethnicity and an undesirable one at that. She was available for adoption by Russians for several months but no one wanted her. At her court hearing, my sister was asked repeatedly if she was sure that she really wanted to adopt a Gypsy baby.
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I'm glad your sister persevered and was able to bring your niece home even though where she came from has their own issues with race and ethnicity. Let me be a bit more clear and say that there are far more people in the US willing to adopt babies from overseas and that it won't work out for every child, and Russia definitely has issues with their own adoption/foster system that are endemic to their countries.
I'm not saying stop adopting kids from overseas, I'm saying that we can do both here. A family I babysat for adopted internationally and was a foster parent to children from that same ethnicity/nationality who ended up needing a home. They eventually adopted the foster children and I know that part of what made them successful was that they were an interracial couple and the father looked like the kids and they did a lot of work with other families who adopted from that same country with both parents being white. I provided many a notarized document for this family because of how they did things.
It isn't an either or, it is a both. We need systems in the USA to support the kids who are adopted internationally, and for domestic children to be fostered or adopted. Granted there's a whole huge separate issue, the elephant in the room which is tattooed on DrPhil's forehead of why we have so many kids internally who are also in need and what can be done in that arena.
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