[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by garinda

I just know if I was ten and living in care, I'd much rather live with two people that loved me, and made me feel part of a family, regardless of their gender.

I think that goes for colour mix too. It use to get me so mad when couples were turned down for adoption because they only had brown children available and the prospective parents were regarded as too pale!

There was one particular set of twins, with blond hair and blue eyes no less, but they could not be adopted by a white couple because they had a brown skinned west indian great grannie (whom they had never met.) They'd been brought up by their white mother amongst white relatives with white grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins but when the mother was no longer able to take care of them for whatever reason the adoption people were looking for a black or mixed race couple. Wouldn't that have possibly been a culture shock for them?