Beyond FAMILY: Adoption.com

Adoption.com offers a terrific article, A Bridge Between Cultures: Jewish Couple Adopts Biracial Children, on Reena Bernards and Tom Smerling and their two biracial children, Ami and Talia. The story features memorable, insightful quotes from both parents, including this one:

Parenting biracial children has affected his life profoundly, says Smerling, director of the Israel Policy Forum’s Washington Policy Center. “We became overnight a multiracial family and part of a minority. And every moment now, I see the world through not just Jewish and male and Caucasian eyes, but also through African-American eyes. And the world looks very, very different.”