African American baby boy adopted and loved by young white couple

I saw the most beautiful thing on my way home today. I was walking in the village and I passed by three young caucasian ladies walking and one was pushing a baby carriage, I briefly glanced inside the carriage as I passed them and saw a little brown baby boy kicking and laughing. The baby looked to be about 8 or 9 months old. Not wanting to stare or ask questions but obviously curious, I continued to walk on down the sidewalk ahead ot them. When I got to the stop light, I saw the ladies just behind me waiting to cross the street as well. (My ‘southerness’ came out and I just had to be nosy) and asked the lady pushing the carriage, ‘Is that your baby?’ She beamed and said yes. She adopted him. The little baby boy was adorable!

So I’m waiting to hear her say she adopted him from Africa or some other country. But no! She adopted him from right here in the US! She said when she and her husband applied to adopt, they told the agency that race didn’t matter to them and right away the agency told them they were getting a little African American baby boy. She said they saw him when he was only 12 hours old and had they papers ready and everything but the bio mother kept changing her mind. She said the mother was in and out of jail. When she got out of jail she wanted to keep her baby and she could understand that. But after some time, the adoption finally went through.

The mother said this little boy is going to grow up with a lot of love. She said the baby’s maternal grandmother is a huge part of their lives and in fact is coming to visit them along with another relative of the baby’s biological family. She says she talks to the grandmother all of the time and has Grandmother’s full support. Unfortunately the bio mother is back in jail. Tears started running down my cheeks as she told me this story. I hugged her and she and her two friends teared up too. I was just so overcome. She said she knew that a lot of black babies get passed over for adoption in the states and that this little boy was the best thing that has happened to her family.

I am so happy for that baby boy! He has a chance he would probably never have had otherwise. He is not going to become a ‘statistic!’ He has a chance to become a productive citizen in this country. This has made my day and I will carry this memory with me a long time. The whole time we were talking that little baby was just giggling and kicking his legs, he looked so happy! This is a young Black man that may be able to grow up and break the cycle of judging women in an unloving way because he has been so loved himself.