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Black Pennsylvania couple talk about race-tinged reactions after adopting white children, including being accused of kidnapping their 3-year-old white twin boys

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>Among the several disturbing reactions for a Black <strong>Collingdale<&sol;strong><&sol;strong>&comma; <strong>Pennsylvania couple who adopted several White children is being accused of kidnapping their white toddlers <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>Jennifer McDuffie-Moore&comma; 43&comma; and her husband&comma; Harry Moore&comma; 37&comma; took in Brayden and Trevor as foster children in 2018<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>Then three months old&comma; the boys were separated at birth from their biological mother&comma; who suffered from drug addiction <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>Two years later&comma; the Moores officially adopted the twins&comma; who joined the couple’s biological children&comma; Joy&comma; 21&comma; and Kourtney&comma; 11&comma; and their adoptive kids&comma; Keenan&comma; 10&comma; and Sanchez&comma; 8 <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>Jennifer who co-owns a child care program&comma; and Harry&comma; a mechanic&comma; described racist episodes they have experienced as the black parents of white children <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A month ago&comma; we were playing at the playground and the three-year-old twins didn’t want to go home&period; A lady had been watching us playing and when one of the twins had a tantrum&comma; she told me she was going to call the police&comma;” Jennifer said <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I scooped the kids up and she thought I was stealing them&period; One of the twins said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;No&comma; that’s my mom&excl;’ <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;584d4d"><strong><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Instead of scrutinizing what color people are or their gender or their preferences&comma; people should understand that love really does support a family&period; There are so many kids out there without homes”&comma; <strong>Jennifer says<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Jennifer-McDuffie-Moore-with-her-3-year-olds-Brayden-and-Trevor-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386744"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jennifer McDuffie-Moore with her in 3-year-old sons Brayden and Trevor who she initially took in as foster children at age of three months&period; The boys were separated at birth from their biological mother&comma; who suffered from drug addiction&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A black couple from Collingdale&comma; Pennsylvania who adopted twin boys&comma; an act informed by love&comma; have had to endure the current backwash of racist actions that appear to affect almost all aspects of life&comma; including loving and nurturing children&period; <br>In one notable incident&comma; a woman threatened to call the cops when their sons had a tantrum at a playground&period; <br>The children&&num;8217&semi;s mother Jennifer McDuffie-Moore&comma; 43&comma; and her husband&comma; Harry Moore&comma; 37&comma; reportedly&comma; took in 3-year-olds Brayden and Trevor as foster children after they were separated at birth from their biological mother&comma; who suffered from drug addiction&&num;8217&semi;<br>Jennifer and Harry Moore already had two biological children&comma; Joy&comma; 21&comma; and Kourtney&comma; 11&comma; and two adoptive kids&comma; Keenan&comma; 10&comma; and 8-year-old Sanchez&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Jennifer-McDuffie-Moore-and-Harry-Moore-with-their-3-year-olds-Brayden-and-Trevor-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386745"&sol;><figcaption><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A lady had been watching us playing and when one of the twins had a tantrum&comma; she told me she was going to call the police&comma;” Jennifer <&sol;strong>&&num;8211&semi;<strong>The couple are seen &lbrack;photo&rsqb; with three of their six kids&period; They adopted their youngest&comma; twins Brayden and Trevor&comma; two years after fostering them as three-month-olds in 2018<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>zFast forward two years later&comma; the Moores officially adopted the twins&period;<br>Speaking to a news outlet Jennifer&comma; an early learning specialist and co-owner of a childcare program&comma; and Harry&comma; a mechanic&comma; recounted several racist episodes they have experienced as the black parents of white children&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A month ago&comma; we were playing at the playground and the twins didn’t want to go home&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A lady had been watching us playing and when one of the twins had a tantrum&comma; she told me she was going to call the police&comma;” Jennifer told SWNS&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I scooped the kids up and she thought I was stealing them&period; One of the twins said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;No&comma; that’s my mom&excl;’ I don’t want to justify it because people should mind their own business&comma;” she said&period;<br>The couple also said they’ve been pulled over by police while driving in their minivan&period; <br>In one episode&comma; a cop interrogated them about two white foster girls in the vehicle&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We were coming back from a family outing from Delaware and we got pulled over&comma;” Jennifer said&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We had our children and two little strawberry blond girls who we were fostering with us and the first thing the cops asked my husband was&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Whose kids are those&quest;’ And he wasn’t kind about it&comma;” she said&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Brayden-and-Trevor-Moore-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386753" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"557"&sol;><figcaption><strong>The Moores met their twin bundles of Joy&comma; Brayden and Trevor&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; when the boys were three months old in 2018<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Jennifer-McDuffie-Moore-with-her-3-year-olds-Brayden-and-Trevor-and-Along-with-the-twins-Keenan-10-and-Sanchez-8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386746"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jennifer spending quality time her boys &&num;8211&semi; 3-year-old twins&comma; Brayden and Trevor&comma; Sanchez&comma; 8&comma; and Keenan&comma;10&comma; In addition to their adoptive children&comma; the couple have two biological children&comma; Joy&comma; 21&comma; and Kourtney&comma; 11<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Harry said the officer claimed he had pulled them over because the minivan’s windows were too dark&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But we knew why he pulled us over&comma;” he said&period;<br>The parents said they first experienced the racial challenges when they adopted their now ten-year-old son Keenan&comma; who also is white&comma; in 2016 &period; <br>Unfortunately&comma; these race-tinged episodes grew more intense after George Floyd’s murder and at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We often see transracial adoption done the other way — a white family adopting a black child&comma;” says Jennifer&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Even doing the paperwork&comma; there are a lot of questions about our ability to foster children who are white&period; It took us 2&comma;695 days to adopt Keenan because we are black&comma;” she said&period; <br> &&num;8220&semi;We have conversations about race all the time &&num;8211&semi; in our home we talk about it&comma; we know that everyone is different&comma; you have to acknowledge it and not pretend to be color blind&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Jennifer-McDuffie-Moore-with-her-3-year-olds-Brayden-and-Trevor-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386743"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jennifer McDuffie-Moore seen here with her toddlers said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Instead of scrutinizing what color people are or their gender or their preferences&comma; people should understand that love really does support a family&period; There are so many kids out there without homes” <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But the couple insisted that they would not let race affect their decision to give a home to children in need of one as it&&num;8217&semi;s the &&num;8220&semi;right thing to do&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br>&&num;8220&semi;I try my best not to feed into any nonsense about what people are feeling or doing&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Harry&period; <br>&&num;8220&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t get me wrong&comma; I hear little whispers and I get looks going to the supermarket and getting gas with the kids&period; <br>&&num;8220&semi;But I&&num;8217&semi;ve never paid attention to it or fed into it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>Last year was crazy&period; We saw all these racially charged incidents happen and we had to have conversations with our children&comma;” Jennifer added&period;<br>The mom-of-six said&comma; Brayden and Trevor &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;were supposed to stay for a weekend and now they are here forever&period;” <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They were born with a drug in their systems and so they are medically needy with developmental delays and speech and language issues&comma;” she said<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;Harry-Moore-with-3-year-olds-Brayden-and-Trevor-as-well-as-Sanchez-8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-386740"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Harry Moore seen with his sons &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; said police once pulled the family over because they assumed two white girls whom Jennifer McDuffie-Moore and Harry Moore were fostering weren’t theirs&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>However<&sol;strong> <strong>Moore said&comma; he never lets those acts get to him<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Two days after we took them in for a weekend to give their foster care giver a break&comma; the agency asked if they could stay for good&comma;” Jennifer continued&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We said they could stay with us until they had found a home but then time passed and they were nearly a year old and our whole family&comma; my nieces and our church&comma; pitched in and we eventually started the adoption process&comma;” she said&period;<br>The couple said they can’t imagine their family without their twins&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They are definitely are our sons&comma;” Jennifer told SWNS&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Instead of scrutinizing what color people are or their gender or their preferences&comma; people should understand that love really does support a family&period; There are so many kids out there without homes&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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