Have Caucasian/white/European children ever been adopted by parents of other races? White folk seem to adopt children of other races often enough, but I can’t recall hearing about or seeing the reverse.
Lionel Ritchie, an African-American (albeit a light-skinned one) and his girlfriend?.. paramor?.. …whatever their relationship was… adopted a white baby girl.
Hmm…Nicole Ritchie’s biological father is of Mexican descent, mother of undetermined ethnicity. Provisionally yes?
Oh, of course it happens. It’s less common because of the racism (their own, or their concern about others’) that discourages many white prospective parents from adopting black kids, thus leaving a larger pool of black kids for prospective parents who are black, or not racist. Black kids enter the foster/adoption system at about the same rate as white kids, but leave only about half as much.
A very blond classmate of my daughter’s has a Chinese last name. She told my daughter her grandfather had been adopted by a Chinese family. I wish I knew the circumstances, but I don’t. (Northern California)
I used to work with a Caucasian woman who had been adopted by Japanese-American parents when she was a baby.
Here’s an article about one family.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/04/22/raising-katie.html
Really great link, thank you.
I read a magazine article once about a black couple who’d adopted a white baby boy. In their case, they’d been infertile for years and adopted the baby of a friend’s teenage daughter. They said they’d agonized for awhile, concerned about whether or not he’d feel different, but decided that whatever happened, they’d face it as a family.
Almost as soon as they brought him home from the hospital, adoptive mom found out she was pregnant, after something like ten years of marriage. So now they have one white son and one black son, nine months apart. When the interviewer asked how the boys got along, the mom said, “They are brothers! Best friends one day, enemies the next.” Like any other pair of brothers. 
Nicole Ritchie is half black, half white. She said so herself on “The Champs” podcast.
Just to get this story straight, Nicole Richie is the daughter of an unmarried couple who were both well known to Lionel Richie, since they were part of his musician friends. Nicole sometimes hung around concerts and practices for him and his band when she was very young. Lionel and his first wife weren’t able to have children themselves, so they were able to persuade Nicole’s biological parents to let her live with them from the age of two or three on. When she was nine, they formally adopted her. After Lionel and his first wife divorced, she lived sometimes with her and sometimes with Lionel and his second wife and and their two children. Lionel and his first wife are clearly black. Nicole certainly looks white. My memory of looking this up before is that she has some Hispanic and some black ancestry.
Yes. Friends of the family (who are Maori) adopted a white baby boy.
I remember reading an article about black people who adopted a white baby. (Maybe it was a foster child).
Anywho, they were complaining that it inspired a lot of racist sentiment. If a white parent had a black child, it was, “Oh, they are generously taking care of that poor colored child…” :dubious:
Meanwhile, when folks saw a black parent with a white child, they were like, “Why are you stealing that white baby!?!?!” :smack:
It was in Reader’s Digest or something.
Scott Fujita, the American football player, is a Caucasian adopted by Japanese parents.