‘My Family Does Not See Color’: Single Black Mother Adopts 3 White Foster Children, Ignores Stares

‘My Family Does Not See Color’: Single Black Mother Adopts 3 White Foster Children, Ignores Stares
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Treka Engleman has faced many challenges along the road to adopting and parenting three children. Since this African-American woman has adopted three white children from foster care, a lot of what she hears is about color.

“Yes I have had my fair share of stares while we’re out in public, but we just keep walking by unbothered,” Engleman wrote on Love What Matters. “My family does not see color, just kids that needed a home.” With biological sisters Mercedes, age 16, and Alexis, 13, and the baby boy of the family Elijah, who is 3, the Engleman family is complete.