homegrown, and three black adoptees. The first two were adopted in
Africa, where they live (they run an AIDS clinic). When they were
adopting the third in Atlanta, the social worker got that "Serious Topic
Face" and asked if they had given any thought to the problems of having
an interracial family. My cousins just handed over the latest family
portrait. The social worker just said, "Oh." I believe their quote
after that was something like, "We're moving to Africa. They don't mind
black kids there."
I love my family.
--benD
Raymond Camden wrote:
> Bah, you don't know rude till you adopt internationally. I just love it when
> people ask me if my kids speak English. ("Uh, no, because kids can't learn
> any other language except for the one where they are born.") Of course,
> that is slightly better than the people who look at my kids... then my wife
> and I... then the kids again. It's like, you _have_ heard of adoption,
> haven't you???
>
> Ok, rant mode off. ;)
>
> -rc
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christine Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:53 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: Having kids (was RE: Exploring Frugality)
> >
> > My husband and I get that all the time and I think it's
> > totally inappropriate but I'm sooo used to it. My Mom jokes
> > that people don't realize that for every time I'm asked that
> > they've probably just added a month or two onto our plan to
> > wait (I'm very stubborn) :-).
> >
> >
>
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