Fosterhood in NYC

16th September 2009

Regarding the “white baby” they want me to take

I just got a call again about this baby but I let it go to voicemail.  After talking it over with a friend who is a psychologist and happens to be a mixed-race foster mother to three very white kids, I’m feeling really uncomfortable about this child.

The way my friend phrased it was ”Tell them you don’t want to be part of a disrupted placement just because of the color of the foster parent”.

Also, it feels so strange to say out loud, but I really want a child of/with color.  I think the best way to put this is “There’s a lot of people out there with a lot of resources who want a white child.  I’d like to save my resources for children (rediculously) deemed less desirable”.

Also, I’m going to ask them if they called the Jewish couple who originally had Snap.  They only want a white child.

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