What were Annalise and the social worker thinking? Barbara may have been biracial, but for all appearances she was a black girl who had been raised since birth in a black family. (Yes, I know the right term now is African-American, but it wasn't back then.) Did anybody stop to think about it before she was shipped off to the Midwest to live with the nice white couple, or did they just assume because she was biracial she could just adapt and everything would be fine? It said it all when she responded to Annalise telling her she was "half-white" by asking which half of her was white. I have no problem with racial mixing, my niece has two daughters I adore who are biracial. But Barbara never asked to be a test-case for mixed adoption, she was forced to leave the only mother she had ever known to be stuck in a world where she didn't fit and ran away from it as soon as she could. I can't help thinking the pregnancy was no accident, she wanted a way to marry Don and knew Annalise would have no way to argue against it if she was pregnant and Don was "doing the right thing by her." Or maybe she expected Annalise to kick her out over the baby (you know that happened back then) and then she would be out of the whole mess others has made of her life.