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In Black and White: The Story of an Open Transracial Adoption

by Nathalie Seymour - £7.95  BAAF (2007)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781905664108 | ISBN 10: 1905664109

We are going to be adopted and stay with Mummy and Daddy forever! Danny looked up at me. Rita's words had disturbed him. 'I know why I had to leave my mum,' he said, 'but why do I have to live with you?'
 
This is the true story of the adoption of Danny and Rita. Spanning some three decades, the story tells how Tom and Nathalie, a white couple, adopted the two children of a young black woman with a serious mental illness. Rita settles in with her new family, while Danny isn't sure. It follows the children as they get to know their birth father's family and in time make their dramatic decision, one by one, to leave their adoptive home. But that is not the end of the story...
 
The story begins at a time when the political landscape was different - transracial adoptions were commonplace and did not provoke the debate or stir up the strong feelings that they do today. but as events unfold, the landscape has begun to change and has implications for all those involved.
 
This honest account of one couple's attempt to create a family is set against a background of adoption concerns that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago.

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