I'm a father of 3 wonderful adopted kids (Same race). Rewind to when my oldest was almost 2. True story. I was conversing with a co-worker (who knows my kids are adopted). I was talking about how my son matches us so closely that you can't tell he's adopted. People would always fawn over him and say how he looks just like us so obviously he was meant to be in my family. I was expressing to my friend my concerns with possibly adopting transracially. I was worried that people would continue to say that about my son but what if the next one is black. How would hearing that affect her? At that moment another co-worker who had only been in on the last few seconds of the conversation pipes up, "If your next baby is black, you have MUCH bigger problems." 7 years later I still think that's hilarious.
