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Advice please ............
biloxiblues
October 8, 2009 20:28
We''re not sure which board to put this on so we''ve posted on both! We hope someone can give us the benefit of their experience. We are currently considering/being considered for a sibling group who are dual heritage. We are both white but dh''s family is a bit of a melting pot to say the least! There are very many positives for this group but it would be clear that we couldn''t be anything but adoptive parents. This isn''t a problem for us but wanted to know if others had found that it became a problem for their children. Many thanks.BBxx
melang0103
February 20, 2010 14:00
Hi biloxiblues, my hubby and I are also being considered for a sibling group, one of the little ones is of mixed race, the others are white and my hubby and I are both white. We do not have a problem with this, and obviously neither have the SW's.People know we are going to be adopting so we would never try pass the children off as 'our own' but a couple of the older generation of our family may be a bit funny about it. So I too would be interested in finding out how others have dealt with this.Good luck with your potential match!
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loadsofbubs
February 20, 2010 18:38
you might be suprised at how idiotically stupid some people can be. my AS is 100% ethnically chinese and myself 100% ethnically white british, but the number of people who have assumed for years that I gave birth to him is incredible really! ok, I have two children of mixed heritage (chinese/english) but they don't look oriental and AS does. wierd. he looks nothing like me or his (adopteive) siblings.
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thespouses
February 22, 2010 16:58
Although my SW disagrees with me, I think that when you see a family with: one white parent, mixed race child/ren, other parent not there, you don't think ADOPTED you think "other parent is of a different heritage and isn't here right now". And if you see a child with two white parents who is clearly partly white in origin I think people tend to think "oh look, mum and stepdad, biological dad is obviously different heritage".
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