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How do you deal with someone who uses their child’s adoption and race as a “trophy”?

January 23, 2014 · by Daniel Drennan ElAwar | in General Adoption | tagged adoption, race factor, racism, trophy children | 4 Comments

This tweet recently appeared on Twitter: I WILL constantly #judge you if you #adopt a child and constantly refer to them as: “my #black #adopted child”. It was followed up by the above question. I’ll leave it open to your interpretation and response.

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