(February 7, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Shell B Wrote: That's precisely how I feel, but I've spent time in the "adoption community" online so to speak, and I see an awful lot of vitriol about it. I'm particularly interested in finding out what kind of impact it has on the adopted children, if any. I hear a lot about "oh, but their culture." I don't understand that noise. If you're raised in a certain place by certain people, that's your culture. And, no parent is fully in tune with their kids, particularly teens. It's not like teen and middle-age culture often aligns.
In my area, most of the kids up for adoption are Latino, black or a mixture of various ethnicities. I can't imagine skipping over any because of race. It seems like that's what some people would have you do, in order to preserve their "culture," and not treat them like "accessories." I don't get their reasoning. Maybe someone has a valid argument for this. I've yet to see it.
“Their” culture? They have no culture. Culture is something they acquire during their upbringing. They have not been brought up yet.
