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You sir... (Reply to this comment)
by Schlamozzel
... belong in my WOT. And that is exactly where you will go.
Thank you for your comments on my "Epinion". As you may have guessed I have little use for Massachusetts State "Social Workers". Having almost gotten stabbed to death by a psychiatric patent because a Mass "Social Worker" didn't bother to tell me (I was a Firefighter / EMT) that this person had delusions and was psychotic, I had little faith in them to begin with.
Care to move to Massachusetts?
Schlamozzel
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May 06 '02
4:31 pm PDT
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People are so... (Reply to this comment)
by Caprig
...hypocritical.
Amazing how "non-prejudice" issues are so chic in the media, politics, and in the culture, when it is financially beneficial and politically advantageous to those with their faces and names plastered on the screen/papers.
Then, when it comes right down to it, they are more prejudiced than anyone else!
In other words, for perfect integration, why NOT have anyone from any racial background adopted across racial lines? That should not even BE an issue.
After all, we all bleed RED!
Capri
PS How do you prove you are part American Indian when you have no records? (my husband is part Mohawk, and his father died, so he can not get to his records either)---rhetorical question
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Apr 30 '02
7:54 am PDT
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Re: Thanks Jo (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5
Thanks for the comment Jo, I'll have to check into the NASWs rules & regs. I'm sure you know how it is, after working with children, desperately wanting to call anywhere home, your heart tends to bleed for the little one.
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Apr 29 '02
7:03 pm PDT
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Re: thanks for R&R and the comment (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5
Thanks for the comment Anna, you are fantastic.
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Apr 29 '02
7:00 pm PDT
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I couldn't agree more (Reply to this comment)
by annecal
the most important thing is that a child has a loving and stable environment.
Great point-
Anna
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Apr 28 '02
4:10 pm PDT
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I took a course (Reply to this comment)
by jo.com
on racism in grad school and transracial adoption was the topic I chose to present for a class presentation. Unless NASWs have changed their position, which may be since I don't keep up with my journal subscriptions anymore, they are against transracial adoptions, at least that is their formal stance. It is too bad...nice job. jo
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Apr 28 '02
6:25 am PDT
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Bravo... (Reply to this comment)
by jay1051971
Excellent commentary...
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Apr 27 '02
8:53 pm PDT
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Re: Thanks for the comment Colleen (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5
Colleen, I really appreciate your comment, your statement, "you've picked a hot topic here" is correct.
Honestly, it breaks my heart to see any child awaiting adoption, year after year, searching, wanting, crying and begging for someone to adopt them someone to love them enough to bring them in their home.
cntaur5
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Apr 27 '02
8:02 pm PDT
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you've picked a hot topic here (Reply to this comment)
by platypus55
especially when it comes to kids of African blood, some are arguing that black children should never be placed in white homes because they won't understand who they are and will always feel weird culturally.
so what's the alternative, just let them grow up in the foster system?
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Apr 27 '02
2:31 pm PDT
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Re: My Own Experience... (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5
Thanks Casey for sharing your thoughts and telling your touching and personal experience with adoption. Although I was not adopted, my late Mother, and late Grandfather were Choctaw, however after a run in with the U.S. Foster Care system they were separated from their heritage and records.
Like you, I'm glad we are in a more enlightened time. Once again, thanks for reading and rating and leaving a comment, I really appreciate it.
cntaur5
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Apr 27 '02
10:09 am PDT
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My Own Experience... (Reply to this comment)
by kcfoxy
...as a child of mixed American Indian and Caucasian blood came to mind as I was reading this important epinion.
I was 8 when my parents told me I was adopted. They were white, middle-class people, and wanted me to experience some of my native culture. I remember books on arts, crafts, the little history then available, and various summer trips to reservations in the Western US.
Two adoptive sisters were from the same racial make-up as my adoptive parents, and I can remember losing my temper, and at various points, all family members chiming in "that's because you're Indian and Indians have bad tempers."
I know they did their best by me, and also know that my birth mother's own mother gave birth off the Big Rez, so that her light complected daughter would have a "chance to better herself" by "passing" as white, (the year was 1930).
By not having any enrollment number, my Mom and I have less chance of claiming/learning more about our history from the records in Fort Defiance, AZ.
That's sad, but a true commentary on the times.
Today's more enlightened times eases the stigma of adoption that was faced back then, and mixed-race children such as myself, or transracial adoptions as a whole, may receive more open-minded reception.
Thanks very much for this interesting information. Facts are important to get out there and you have done a fine job!
Casey
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Apr 27 '02
3:23 am PDT
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re: thanks for the comment Diane (Reply to this comment)
by cntaur5
Thanks again for the comment Diane, I realize this is a hot subject, but I'm glad there are people like you out there for the children.
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Apr 27 '02
12:42 am PDT
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Welcome to adoption! (Reply to this comment)
by Yzerman
I have been in the adoption field for 13 years now. I have always done a special training for people who chose transracial adoption just to help prepare them for what they will encounter. And it is sad that the ones who will have the toughest time (with bigoted people) are the ones who are white adopting either a biracial or African-American child.
As of last summer, I am now also an adoptive parent of an Hispanic child; the response I have encountered has been very positive. Complete strangers approach me in public to ask questions and to congratulate me. The only really dumb comment I have come across so far is people asking me if she will speak English or Spanish!! Two people have asked me this even after being told that I have had her since she was two days old!
Anyway, nice job on the review!
Diane
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Apr 27 '02
12:16 am PDT
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