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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is additionally concerned about adoption because the adoptees he's known anecdotally.

Based on your husband's hesitations I would not adopt an AA baby.  I know a Jewish couple who adopted two babies whose parents were not Jewish and are now raising them Jewish.  Personally, I think that is wrong because they are denying their children's biological history.  Almost as if you adopted from China and raised them to be Mormon.

If you are going to adopt at all you need to discuss this with your husband and perhaps a counselor to work out all the feelings you both have.  Perhaps there are Jewish babies/young children available that you are unaware of?  Perhaps you can talk to people in your community?

Good luck![/quote]

Thanks. It's kind of ironic; we aren't really that connected to the Jewish community except religiously -- we don't go to synagogue except for major holidays, we don't ever interact with clergy, we have Jewish friends but most of them are even more secular than we are -- but we do strongly feel that we could never leave the community. My husband's hesitations are more toward adoption generally; mine are more toward the potential trans-racial aspects given our desire to raise children Jewish. So I'm trying to work through that first. I don't really think we're going to pursue this route given my husband's feelings. But I want to make a fully informed decision, or at least as informed as such a decision can be. My main concern is any issue for the child. There would not be any real barrier from our perspective or from our families.[/quote]

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