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Dialogues about difference are going on in an increasing number of American households that have been made multiracial through either intermarriage or transracial adoption. The Census Bureau estimates that there are more than 1.3 million interracial marriages. Nearly a third of the children adopted from the public foster-care system...
The spectrum of multiracial families is broad but embraces some common issues. For example, parents can't be as arbitrary in their choices of neighborhoods, schools, play groups or other social situations when they have a mixed household. "For a child, it's easier to blend," says Mary Durr, an...
But there are also grace notes, as in how time and communication can resolve dicey situations. At first Kim Felder, a California family recruiter for adoptions with one biological child, encountered what she perceived as resistance from her parents to her intention to adopt transracially. She and her husband Carl...
Having a child of a different or blended race also has a habit of shaking up racial orientations. "I lost my white privilege; I began to experience reactions from people," says Jennifer Viets. That can be difficult if there are unresolved issues. Filippo Santoro, 34, an Italian American, is married...
You left out the perspective of adoptive parents. They are required to jump through many legal and social hoops to adopt a child. When they get a child through legally binding adoptive procedures, they provide all the necessities of life that natural parents would. But what rights, courtesies and considerations...