The Adoption Journey
When a couple has an emotional journey trying to have their own biological children, but at the end they were unable to, they may consider adopting a child of their own. Although adopt a child may not be same as having their own biological child, they are still able to provide the same amount love and care to their adopted child as they would have given to their own biological child. By adopting they can give the child a better life; however, there are some up and down of adopting. When a couple makes the decision to adopt a child, the challenges affect both the adoptive parents and the adoptees, but the challenges are more impactful to the adoptee.
Adoption has a long history. During the premodern days, children were adopted …show more content…
According to a recent survey by Department of Health and Human Services, there are more than 40% of transracial adoptions today as compare to 28 % back in 2004. This shows an increase in transracial adoptions and it becoming more common today. Adoptive parents need to prepare themselves on the concept of race. When adoptive parents make the decision to transracial adopt a child, they are preparing that they will be raising a child of a different race than theirs. The adoptive parents will need to understand that “part of loving your child is seeing and loving the color of her skin—and accepting the reality that he or she will likely be painfully pigeonholed sometime in his or her life because of it” (Valby). Even though the adoptive parents love the child who he or she it and do not see the color of the child as a factor that affects the love they provide to the child, there will be sometime in the life of the child where he or she will be judge by the way they look. Since the adoptive parents see themselves with the acceptance of raising a child of a different race, according Mark Hagland, a Korean adoptee, he sees that “parents who believe that they can raise their child color-blind are making a terrible mistake” (Valby). Raising a child in a color-blind society where all individual are treated equally regardless of race, culture, or ethnicity cannot be fulfill in our society; since there is still the idea of racism in our society. The concept of race is one of the many challenges that affect both the adopted child and the adoptive
When a couple has an emotional journey trying to have their own biological children, but at the end they were unable to, they may consider adopting a child of their own. Although adopt a child may not be same as having their own biological child, they are still able to provide the same amount love and care to their adopted child as they would have given to their own biological child. By adopting they can give the child a better life; however, there are some up and down of adopting. When a couple makes the decision to adopt a child, the challenges affect both the adoptive parents and the adoptees, but the challenges are more impactful to the adoptee.
Adoption has a long history. During the premodern days, children were adopted …show more content…
According to a recent survey by Department of Health and Human Services, there are more than 40% of transracial adoptions today as compare to 28 % back in 2004. This shows an increase in transracial adoptions and it becoming more common today. Adoptive parents need to prepare themselves on the concept of race. When adoptive parents make the decision to transracial adopt a child, they are preparing that they will be raising a child of a different race than theirs. The adoptive parents will need to understand that “part of loving your child is seeing and loving the color of her skin—and accepting the reality that he or she will likely be painfully pigeonholed sometime in his or her life because of it” (Valby). Even though the adoptive parents love the child who he or she it and do not see the color of the child as a factor that affects the love they provide to the child, there will be sometime in the life of the child where he or she will be judge by the way they look. Since the adoptive parents see themselves with the acceptance of raising a child of a different race, according Mark Hagland, a Korean adoptee, he sees that “parents who believe that they can raise their child color-blind are making a terrible mistake” (Valby). Raising a child in a color-blind society where all individual are treated equally regardless of race, culture, or ethnicity cannot be fulfill in our society; since there is still the idea of racism in our society. The concept of race is one of the many challenges that affect both the adopted child and the adoptive