I've been watching OWN for hours today. I started with watching Dr. Phil and then it turned into 20/20 and 48 hours. I watched a case about a young teenage African American boy who was shot and killed. He was murdered because he was listening to loud music and being disrespectful to the murderer. It was an absolute horrifying and nightmare of a murder. To kill a young man for listening to music loudly and have a verbal argument. The murderer got 1st degree murder and life in prison. I started thinking about this in relation to our adoption because of the fears I have regarding raising an African American child. Tristan and I are open to bringing an African American baby into our home. We are open to any culture or ethnicity.
I fear that other peoples prejudice, racism and biases could hurt my child. I want to dig deeper to understand how I can support and raise a child of a race different than my own. I know it will be important to reach out to friends and colleagues that share a similar culture and race as my child and have them serve as a cultural mentor for my child. I will also seek out professionals that are of a similar race and make sure that my child has strong professional role models of the same race as my child. I hope this can guide my child to not only accept their race but to embrace it.
I am writing a blog post about this because it is something that I want to continue thinking about and building resources around. I am going to add another page to this blog that is a collection of resources. A file cabinet so to speak. I am going to post resources and links so I can review and look at them in the future. An important research topic that I want to explore more is raising a child from a different background than your own. You immediately become a conspicuous family when you adopt a child of a different culture. This means that when others look at your family they know immediately that you have come together through adoption.
Mini- Adoption Update:
We spoke with our adoption counselor and we are going to meet with her Monday, July, 10th at 11:00 AM. I am excited about this meeting and can't wait to move forward in this process. I also wanted to build a timeline page for this website. I am going to add these pages to my website today.
-- Mrs.Can'tWaitToBeYourMomma
I fear that other peoples prejudice, racism and biases could hurt my child. I want to dig deeper to understand how I can support and raise a child of a race different than my own. I know it will be important to reach out to friends and colleagues that share a similar culture and race as my child and have them serve as a cultural mentor for my child. I will also seek out professionals that are of a similar race and make sure that my child has strong professional role models of the same race as my child. I hope this can guide my child to not only accept their race but to embrace it.
I am writing a blog post about this because it is something that I want to continue thinking about and building resources around. I am going to add another page to this blog that is a collection of resources. A file cabinet so to speak. I am going to post resources and links so I can review and look at them in the future. An important research topic that I want to explore more is raising a child from a different background than your own. You immediately become a conspicuous family when you adopt a child of a different culture. This means that when others look at your family they know immediately that you have come together through adoption.
Mini- Adoption Update:
We spoke with our adoption counselor and we are going to meet with her Monday, July, 10th at 11:00 AM. I am excited about this meeting and can't wait to move forward in this process. I also wanted to build a timeline page for this website. I am going to add these pages to my website today.
-- Mrs.Can'tWaitToBeYourMomma