Final Home Visit and Transracial Adoption

We had our home visit a few weeks ago. I felt a lot of pressure to make sure everything in the house looked nice. I cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned a bit more just for good measure. No worries, the house is messy again, in fact it was messy about 30 minutes after the social worker left and the girls started dragging out their toys.

So for those who don't know what a home visit looks like, it is basically when your social worker comes over and does a walk through of your house to make sure its a good and safe environment for a child to be brought into. She also met with the girls and asked them questions and let them ask any questions they had. We took some time to put our service plan together and it looks like we should be approved and a waiting family sometime around the beginning of October if that process goes smooth. The next step is to put our profile book together so we can have that ready to go. As soon as our home study is approved, we will also be able to apply for grants and loans which we are excited about.

There are a lot of things you have to look at when you are adopting domestically and one of those areas is whether or not you are comfortable adopting a child of another race. As some of you may have guessed by the fact that our family is already made up of different races, our answer was yes. So, what will this mean for us? It means that 80% of the children who have an adoption plan made for them are either bi-racial or African American. This means that we have an 80% chance of having our child be bi-racial or African American. There is about an 18% chance our child could be Caucasian and a 2% chance that they would be Asian or Hispanic. We believe that God made us all in his image.We will welcome a child of any race into our family. This is not to say we are "color blind," we don't live in a color blind world, so that would not be a realistic approach. We understand that there may be challenges adopting a child of a different race, just as there are challenges marrying someone of a different race or culture, but there will also be great blessings. The following video is from a Pastor named John Piper. He also adopted a child of a different race than himself. We both found this to be a very powerful video dealing with both race, and adoption. It is a bit long but well worth the watch. I hope you guys enjoy!