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Transracial Adoption

Parent's Wish List and Child's Bill of Rights

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  • I could participate with my child in aspects of his birth culture without by my very presence making the point that he is different.
  • It were easier and more natural for me to seek out friends of my child's birth culture.
  • I didn't feel that outsiders through their attitudes about race judged most things I did.
  • Nobody ever questioned whether we were their "real" parents or they our "real" children.
  • We always "got it" before it happened, anticipated very hurt or affront and were somehow able to protect our children from pain while still giving them the opportunity to become deep and incredible human beings with full capacity to love, care and be happy.
  • Everybody could be viewed and valued for who they are on the inside, not just the outside.

     

    A Transracially-Adopted Child's Bill of Rights

    Copyright 1996, Liza Steinberg Triggs, Pact Press.

    • Every child is entitled to love and full membership in her family.
    • Every child is entitled to have his culture embraced and values.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that this is a race-conscious society.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that she will experience life differently than they do.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who did not adopt him to "save" him or to improve the world.
    • Every child is entitld to parents who know that being in a family doesn't depend on "matching."

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