Interracial adoption is a good thing because all kids need a home even if they are not of the exact same ethnic group. For the child being adopted by another race can be rewarding as well. It could help the …show more content…
One in five children that are waiting to be adopted are an ethic minority and the wait for them is three times as long as for a white child. And twenty percent never find homes again. Social workers say that they should wait for a family with the same ethnicity”. But what they should do is just find them a really nice home no matter the ethnicity. And a good example for that is from It's Time to remove all Barriers to Adoption across Racial Lines says that “On Aug. 13, 1984, a little black girl with sad brown eyes was carried off a Southwest Airlines flight in Dallas. She was 4 years old and weighed 12 pounds. Very few people had expected her to make it from the Nicaraguan refugee camp in Honduras to Dallas. The little girl was a fighter and wanted to live. A white woman who had watched her televised arrival asked to adopt her. While it was to be a private adoption, attempts were first made to find black, black/Hispanic, or Nicaraguan adoptive parents. But no one expressed interest in a child who was fragile, older, and had special needs, except for the white woman who had almost instantly developed a strong rapport with her. The adoption was approved.” Which goes to show that it does not matter the color of his or her skin or which culture you are in being adopted by anyone one who is