Comments on: Foster children – white kids in a black home, pt.1 http://blackerberry.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/foster-children-white-kids-in-a-black-home-pt1/ Forum for and about blacker berries Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:38:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jensboys http://blackerberry.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/foster-children-white-kids-in-a-black-home-pt1/#comment-18 Jensboys Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:32:17 +0000 http://blackerberry.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-18 I happen to know two black families with white adoptive children -- both from scenarios like you describe - usually foster parents that have adopted the children in your care. We attend a camp each summer for families with children of African Heritage (essentially black kids from any country - Haiti, USA, Canada, African Nations etc) and now there are families that come where their bio kids are black, but their adopted kids are white. ( www.harambee.ca ) Anyways, fascinating to hear the story from your perspective. And really, I think lice is a white person problem anyways :) I happen to know two black families with white adoptive children — both from scenarios like you describe – usually foster parents that have adopted the children in your care.

We attend a camp each summer for families with children of African Heritage (essentially black kids from any country – Haiti, USA, Canada, African Nations etc) and now there are families that come where their bio kids are black, but their adopted kids are white. ( http://www.harambee.ca )

Anyways, fascinating to hear the story from your perspective. And really, I think lice is a white person problem anyways :)

]]> By: Jean http://blackerberry.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/foster-children-white-kids-in-a-black-home-pt1/#comment-17 Jean Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:31:18 +0000 http://blackerberry.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-17 Wow, what an interesting story. I can't wait to hear more about the kids that lived with your family. It sounds like your family really embrased them as part of the family. Your story also shows the differences that appear when children are placed in foster care. I think that those differences are there whether the children are same raced as the family or not. There are family traditions as well that are different. I personally never understood the kethcup on the eggs thing either. Wow, what an interesting story. I can’t wait to hear more about the kids that lived with your family. It sounds like your family really embrased them as part of the family. Your story also shows the differences that appear when children are placed in foster care. I think that those differences are there whether the children are same raced as the family or not. There are family traditions as well that are different. I personally never understood the kethcup on the eggs thing either.

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