When you are filling out your adoption application, you will be asked about the race of the child you are hoping to adopt. Does race matter? Should it?

In a perfect world, every child would have a home, and every child would be loved exactly as he is, regardless of race, gender, age, health, or any other factor. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world, so we must ask ourselves these tough questions.

While non-adoptive parents might judge hopeful adoptive parents for making decisions about race, they really cannot understand the realities... more

One series of decisions you will face is what race(s) you will consider. This can be such an uncomfortable series of questions to discuss. On the one hand, you don’t want to feel like you are being exclusionary in the races you will and will not consider, especially when the questions move into percentages, such as 25% of a particular race. On the other hand, it is very normal and human to want to adopt a child who looks like you.

When a couple becomes pregnant, they “make” a baby who inherits physical characteristics from... more