Are there any white children who were adopted into black families?

Question

I was just wondering if anyone had information about white children adopted into black families. I always hear about blacks adopting mixed or black children, and whites adopting white or other races. I have never seen a white child adopted into a black home before. I'm just asking because I'm thinking about adopting a child from Russia or Romania.

NOT TRYING TO BE A JERK OR ANYTHING, BUT NICOLE RICHIE IS NOT WHITE. SHE IS MIXED. I THINK SHE IS 1/2 OR 1/4 BLACK.

Answer 1

Hahhaha! I loved the movie, "The Jerk" with Steve Martin!

Anyway, my friend Ruth is white and her parents are both black.

My cousin has adopted three children from Russia and they're perfect!!! Katya will have two twin little sisters in February. Prepare yourself to meet the child, then have to wait for 3-4 months to actually get them. It's gonna kill you! It's killing me and they aren't even going to be my children. Russia also makes you go through a zillion doctors appointment (even a dermatologist, although I can't figure out why - What? You've got acne and you can't adopt? I don't get it). She's been going to doctors appointments for three weeks straight!!!

So, best of luck to you. If you are open to the idea, you may want to look into adopting older children from foster care. Kids around six years old. There are also a lot of sibling groups that need good homes.

With adoption, I think that the color of your skin is becoming less and less important. They aren't as concerned with placing black kids with white parents, etc. At least, not as much as they used to. I'm sure it's preferable, but who cares? Even homosexual couples are having an easier time adopting.

Personally, I think the only things that should be considered are love and an ability to care for the child.

Answer 2

I do know that due to political conditions, certain countries open and later shut for adoption purposes. Adoptions from Russia, for example, are now much tougher due to political fallout from at least one big-news case a year or two ago (American adoptive mom put Russian brat back on the plane with a one-way ticket, because the kid was a monster (allegedly)). Haitian adoptions used to be popular. The major earthquake of January 2010 put the kibosh on that. And so it goes. Wherever there are children that need to be adopted, that is where hopeful couples go. I read an article recently explaining, to your point, that black children were "easier" to locate for adoption: whether this is "always" the case, who knows. To what you are actually asking, I know few black couples. That isn't a surprise; people associate with others who are similar and my friends are mostly affluent and white. One black couple I do know are talking about adoption, which spurred me to answer: they are willing to take a child *in need*, if that child is Asian, black, or white as the driven snow. Really doesn't matter, now does it? "Weird" is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 3

I would do it. I would think about whether the society I mix with would do the right thing by this child. I know where I live now, it would be just fine, but one place I used to live would not be. Even if I had decent friends myself and a good church, the public schools might not be an easy place for our child. I know some black kids adopted by white parents were teased a lot.

Answer 4

It is a pity more adoption agencies don't become color blind; one little boy, black, was adopted by a white couple who raised him from babyhood into childhood and some misguided people thought he should be with his own cutlure so they took him away form the only parents he ever knew, who loved him so much, and went off with a black family who refused to let him take any of his toys from the only family he knew and they tortured and abused him and he died a few months later. They were on a talk show with some of his toys and it was truly heartbreaking. People need to stop using children as pawns for the game of political correctness and leave children with people who love them regardless of the color difference.

Answer 5

There must be - and I know white kids adopted by mixed families. But I responded to suggest that find and watch the film "The Jerk" directed by Carl Riner and staring Steve Martin as just such a white child.

Answer 6

Adoption is a wonderful thing and hard, but you can do it. As far as blacks adopting white's, its funny that you say that becasue I have never seen or heard of it... but not like it dosent happen. good luck with the adoption procedure.

Answer 7

Nicole Richie

Answer 8

my grandmother is white...and I'm black no i wasn't adopted my grandfather married a white woman...race should never b an issue

Answer 9

it should'nt really matter if a child is black or white. Half my extended family is black and we dont care that were all a little different were all human and thats what counts.

Answer 10

Yeap my cousin is black and she has a white lil adopted girl and a black lil adopated boy.
love comes in all colors