If you have decided on transracial adoption, should you adopt more than one child of the race you are considering? Many years ago, when we first considered adoption, I felt very strongly about transracially adopted children having at least one sibling that they could identify with racially and culturally. I felt it was somehow unfair to the transracially adopted child to be the only one in the family that looked different. Now our family has completed a transracial adoption.

We have adopted seven children over the years, beginning in 1995. While we have accepted children into our home without regard to race, the only ones who became available for adoption by our family were Caucasian. Not only were they all Caucasian, but also light skinned, with light hair, and all but one have blue eyes. We currently have an American Indian foster child, but she also has blond hair, blue eyes, and lily-white skin.

We are all quite content with our current family. Amigrace is to be our last adopted child. In fact, we had a garage sale a couple of weeks ago and sold all the extra cribs, exersaucers, bassinets, and baby swings. Today, I looked at some of the state adoption websites. I know that I'm cured of the adoption bug, because I haven't looked at those websites in a couple of months.

Super Dad says no more babies, it is time to start sleeping all night, again. We’ve had at least one baby a year, usually more, in and out of our home for the past 14 years.

Is it selfish of us not to want to adopt another child? Should we specifically seek out a biracial or black older child to adopt so Amigrace will have a sibling with her coloring and racial heritage?


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