This is why one must be careful about adoption. Indian people are of the mindset that only Indian families should adopt Indian children. My feelings are I don't care what the race is as long as the child goes to a good family. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. If my wife and I were to adopt this child, we would not hear squat from that trash. Jolie and Pitt have money. My wife and I do not
"This is why one must be careful about adoption. Indian people are of the mindset that only Indian families should adopt Indian children. My feelings are I don't care what the race is as long as the child goes to a good family. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. If my wife and I were to adopt this child, we would not hear squat from that trash. Jolie and Pitt have money. My wife and I do not."
I used to think that way ... what color does it matter ... but I've experienced kids of color adopted by someone of another race and the KIDS have ISSUES with this as they grow up. They may "love" their parents but the racial bond or whatever it is, is missing. I've seen other situations when the child is of the same race as the parents and adopted ... and it's a smoother transition and common racial ground gives them a bond of some sort.
I don't know ... ideally kids are more comfortable being adopted by parents of the SAME race - no question about that. These kids seem to be able to put aside the biological factor since they, the parents, look like them. In another family where the parents are Caucasian and the child was a black boy with biological children of the parents ... the adopted boy had issues - RACE. He is a nice boy but he doesn't relate ... he admits that he wishes his parents were of HIS race and btw these parents are LOVELY, LOVING people.
I state the reality and not the ideal - skin color shouldn't matter when adopted but reality is that it DOES matter in this world - unfortunately ... .
A family friend of my parents .... in their 70's now were travelling in Africa ... got caught in some conflict and simply TOOK a black boy who was homeless HOME to the U.S.. He would have been murdered had they not taken him as a small boy - he was already homeless and living off the streets. They were both Caucasian and they risked allot getting him out of that country and raised him as their own. Put him through college and really loved that boy and still ... he's nice to them but they believe the skin color difference still gets in the way of true love from the child - and these two are WONDERFUL people.