Interesting story (for a variety of different reasons) but I'm going to focus on the race part here. some excerpts: Lonny Hunter, the children’s family case manager since 1993, believed the children had enough problems without being teased or harassed for having gay parents. And Ashley had told him her one wish was to have a “brown mother.” “How can I promise her a brown mommy and go in and say, ‘Here's white daddy?’” Hunter told IndyStar years later. “You know? It just wasn't what Ashley herself was requesting. And I was respectful of that.” Ashley remembers saying that, but she also remembers Hunter saying it to her. “It was part of how I felt but also what I had been told,” she said years later. No one else wanted Ashley and her brothers. Nine other families had backed out after reading about the siblings’ diagnoses. All four children had some level of fetal alcohol syndrome, which can severely affect a child’s physical and intellectual development. Ashley, 8, had partial fetal alcohol syndrome. She was doing well. She got good grades. She loved art and acrobatics. But she was stubborn. A bit of a loner. Initially, Craig thought he would adopt one child, maybe two. But an adoption specialist urged him to adjust his expectations. “If you don't want to wait forever,” the woman warned, “you need to consider the children no one else will take.” Craig had seen a study that indicated that the most difficult children to place were siblings and black boys with special needs. https://www.indystar.com/in-depth/n...-peterson-foster-home-dark-secret/3496217002/ What does this story indicate? There is a racial imbalance in the adoption system. There is a surplus of white parents, wanting to adopt, and there is a surplus of black children, who no one wants to adopt. As an inevitable result, black children get adopted by white parents, even though both parties might not view the arrangement as ideal. If you read further into that story you will see that race was a little bit of a factor in the girl's interaction with her new adoptive father, him being a responsible white man who did not want to relinquish control over a slightly developmentally disabled black girl who was not able to be responsible with her life, even after she was a young adult. This is a very honest story, that touches on a lot of things that are not convenient or pleasant to touch on, whichever side of the political aisle you happen to be on. An unabashed look at reality.
