This article started off on the wrong note, since its headline is Families open their hearts and homes to international adoption. Then you go through all the personal details of abandonment.  But then it gets worse:

“Should we bring this little Asian boy to this small community was our big question,” she said. “Neoga is not that culturally diverse, and the thought of making him stand out that much more was a big concern, but we came to the decision that we wanted him here no matter what.

“We had his picture plastered all over the place and we had bonded with his picture.”

A representative of the adoption agency had told the couple that sometimes smaller communities are better than larger communities at embracing differences because they see it as their responsibility to help raise a child who becomes one of their own.

Say what?
“We wanted him here no matter what”? So you thought about this question and decided that your interest was more important? Did you ever consider moving? You’re in a community that’s more than 97 percent white?

And what exactly is the agency representative suggesting? That smaller white communities are better than larger white communities? What if she told the couple that more diverse communities would be better than non-diverse communities? I guess that wouldn’t be as reassuring.

I think it’s hard for white people to think of race as being an important factor when they’ve never had to think about it.  But I wish they would think about the interest of the child.