Cross-Racial Adoptions Present Challenges
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin › December 18, 2005
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It took just a few life-changing seconds for DaneHolweger and Israel Segal to fall in love with Ziggy and Nola.
But even with that boundless love, the two know they can'tprotect their adopted African-American children from racism. AsCaucasian men, they just don't have the experience.See the full content of this document
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Cross-Racial Adoptions Present Challenges
"I can't raise them as a black parent because I am notblack," Holweger said of the 3-year-old twins. "But we arehugely supportive of our children as black children. We want toprovide for them culturally."
Nearly a decade after Congress forced adoption agencies tothrow out race as a deciding factor, the numbers of interracialadoptions have surged. In Los An...See the full content of this document
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