It's hard to remember, and even tougher to realize, but children don't see colors on a person skin and think it means anything. We were at the park and i ran into a mom i know. She has 2 children, one biological, one adopted. She is white, the adopted son is black. The boys are close in age and where wearing the same T-Shirt and Shorts (yes shorts it was 83 degrees). My daughter looks at them and asks me, quite innocently, are the white boy and the brown boy twins??
I smiled, and the mom overheard and had quite a chuckle over it. I said no and she went off to play with them. No big.
But it reminded us of a situation that i'd read about years ago about a Norweigian couple who had had trouble conceiving and had used InVitro. When their multiple babies were born, one was african american. Now that would be shocking!!!!
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