A black couple who adopted white twin boys have described how strangers accuse them of kidnapping their own children.
Jennifer McDuffie-Moore and husband Harry Moore took in Brayden and Trevor, three, as foster kids after they were separated at birth from their biological mum, who had a drug addiction.
The couple officially adopted the identical twins two years later.
They joined their biological children Joy, 21, and Kourtney, 11, and their adoptive kids Keenan, 10, and Sanchez, eight, in the family home in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
But Jennifer, 43, an early learning specialist and co-owner of a childcare program, and Harry, 37, a mechanic, said they have been subjected to a series of racist episodes, as a result.
One mother at a playground even threatened to call the police when the twins had a tantrum while Jennifer was trying to take them home.
Jennifer said: "I scooped the kids up and she thought I was stealing them. One of the twins said: 'No, that's my mom'.
"I don't want to justify it because people should mind their own business," she explained.
The couple, who started fostering in 2009, added that they have been pulled over by the police countless times while ferrying their large family around in a 12-seat minivan.
Five years ago a police officer interrogated them over two white foster girls who were in their van on the way back from a family outing in Delaware.
"We had our children and two little strawberry blonde girls who we were fostering with us and and the first thing the cops asked my husband was: 'whose kids are those?'
"And he wasn't kind about it."
Harry added: "He tried to say that the windows of our van were too dark and that's why he pulled us over but we knew why he pulled us over."
The couple first experienced the challenges of a transracial adoption when they welcomed Keenan, who is also white, in 2016.
But they said that it was more intense adopting the twins in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder last summer and at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Even doing the paperwork there are a lot of questions about our ability to foster children who are white. It took us 2,695 days to adopt Keenan because we are black," said Jennifer.
"We have conversations about race all the time - in our home we talk about it, we know that everyone is different, you have to acknowledge it and not pretend to be colour blind."
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's the "right thing to do".
"I try my best not to feed into any nonsense about what people are feeling or doing," said Harry.
"Don't get me wrong, I hear little whispers and I get looks going to the supermarket and getting gas with the kids.
"But I've never paid attention to it or fed into it."
The couple first took in the twins for a weekend in July 2018 when they were three months old as respite care for a foster parent struggling to look after the tots.
They have developmental delays after being born addicted to hard drugs.
Jennifer said: "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, my nieces and our church, pitched in and we eventually started the adoption process."
The couple say they cannot imagine their family without Brayden and Trevor.
Jennifer said: "We never tell the children what to call us, we let them label us - and Braydon and Trevor call us mommy and daddy.
"Instead of scrutinising what colour people are or their gender or their preferences, people should understand that love really does support a family.
"There are so many kids out there without homes."
