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[quote=Anonymous]If you're not white, they assume you're the caregiver. And if you're white with a biracial child, they assume you are not the birth mother. I can't count the number of times I was asked, "Where did you get him?" Several times, they were white parents of non-white adopted children, so I took it as an effort to make a connection. But I was surprised that they seem less fluent in racial matters generally and seemed to pack a lot more assumptions about race in their thinking. I would have thought the whole decision to form a mixed race family would have engendered a little self-examination and some scrutiny about white privilege. [/quote]
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