Pros And Cons Of Transracial Adoption

Many adoptions are being taken place in the U.S. today and dozens of couples across America adopt. Alot of the adoptions are not necessarily the same as race, therefore that is why transracial adoption has become very well known to those couples who are in need or eager to adopt. Transracial Adoption is when a couple of the same race adopts a child of another race. The idea of adopting children from other race has brought up some debates and controversies which at times the government had to step in. This brought up some mixed criticism views on transracial adoption, because it has been sliced into two separate argument. Some believe, because of the culture its affecting the child while the others think their is nothing wrong with it. The main …show more content…
Is there a concern? Yes and those people who are against it should feel concerned because if the child is adopted out of his own race or culture then they might get to lose their ethnic ties. Although that is why we have the parents who love and care for them to teach them about it, because who knows once they grow they might wanna marry their own race color and that is fine as long as they're happy in the end which is the main goal for any parent and their child. Will it affect the child culturally? of course not. Because they would probably want to explore he’s or she’s ethnic identity. Many of these children who are adopted by a race couple agree that they are proud of their color and the ethnic history. According to Pew Research Center a study was shown that the black children who were raised by white parent had high self confidence and self esteem as to a black child with black adoptive couple. Self confidence is an important chapter to a child that are raised by transracial families, in which researchers have shown and proved that a child who is gwon up with transracial family actually adopt better to society as to those who are adopted by the same color. Additionally black parents dosent to come forward as to the white parents when of interest in adopting. Even though black couples don't seem to have an interest in adopting their still some black children …show more content…
In a lot of cases these children feel more happy of a family with a different race than their own race. These children feel that either they are still getting the better of both worlds and would not have it any other way. When they see it as beneficial than looking at as color how can anyone say that this is possibly harming the child? as long the child is happy with the family, then their should be no problem of race of the color. Actually that should never be the trial because race doesn't seem to be a huge concern, to these children they just want a home. This is why segregation had ended and now we should be viewing it as human being not just race because everybody is the same inside they have feelings and share emotions its just they don't share the same skin color which is okay since we are humans. Even though the adoption officials aren't able to find black couple who would want to take a black child, send them to any kind of transracial home because their shouldn't be a problem of placing a child to a home. The role of a family is support a child, and build a close relationship with the adopted child. So what? well when a family wants to return the child because of color or anything of that matter then the child would have the feeling that maybe they were not good enough for that