The following little paragraph broke my heart. I know we will see some of this and we have to prepare ourselves. It just makes me sad that kids have to go through
Judy Stigger, a counselor at the Cradle (an agency in Chicago) and herself a white adoptive mother of two black children, now adults, makes the issues tangible to prospective parents by relating personal stories. She tells about the time when her son, then a teenager, reached into her purse at a McDonald’s and a clerk called security; and the time when her daughter began crying while looking through congratulatory cards sent by family and friends when they took her home. “Was I supposed to have been white?” her daughter, then in the third grade, asked. Ms. Stigger had never noticed that the children on all of the cards were white.
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