What’s really been annoying me lately is hearing people say “white couples shouldn’t adopt children of color”. As a Mexican and Filipino adoptee in America who has Italian parents, it sounds really ignorant, but I do understand where that opinion is coming from. From what I’ve experienced personally, when I was younger I didn’t know much about my own culture and languages, I wasn’t taught about racism. I felt like I didn’t belong in any kind of racial category, especially being mixed. But, saying white couples can’t adopt any child of color except white is extremely ignorant. There are babies and children of all ages up until when they are legally an adult waiting to be adopted in orphanages, and other places. Thousands, millions of children worldwide are starving, traumatized from past experiences, and don’t have the luxury of having a family or even a place to call home. Ruling out that an entire race saying they can’t adopt a child of a different race other than there own disgusts me. Adopted children of color face identity crisis, not knowing medical history, Parents not understanding identity crisis, Cultural shock when going back to their country or origin, sometimes are bullied based on their race and the fact that their biological parents “didn’t wan’t them”, etc. Every adoptive family takes the time to choose the child they want and are able to provide a home, food, family, an education, and are guaranteed to actually care because they go through so much paper work and wait a long time to get accepted, it’s a  very difficult process. Adopted kids all have there own stories whether they were adopted at a week old, or were forced out of their own homes, all kids deserve a home. Whether the family is white and adopted a middle eastern child, asian and adopted an african american child, doesn’t matter what race the family is, all that matters is that the child is loved, accepted, and cared for.