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Interesting read. My gran fostered over 30 children including some African children short term when I was around 2 years old. I hadn't understood the background as generally she was working with the Church of England. She also adopted 4 girls who became my Aunts, 2 of them are black and didn't have contact with their birth parents although they were based in the UK.
I have a lot of contradictory thoughts and feelings about the whole situation, the effect it had on my adopted Aunts, my Mum, me and my family but there's no way I could hope to unpick it. My Gran started adoption initially to be able to keep a roof over the heads of her own family after her husband died in WWII. She fostered children with different needs and backgrounds over time.
I have been very lucky by comparison with their lives.
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Really interesting article about the practice of west African babies being fostered in the uk by white families.
Writer has a book about it coming out.
Lots of unintentional consequences all around in this situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/15/farmed-black-children-fostered-white-families-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other