When parents adopt, they are excited and ready to meet the child of their dreams. This could be a child or children that the parents could not have. This is a very important day for parents and they have gone through a lot in the process. Parents know that children are a big responsibility but some just do not know that it is a huge different responsibility as a parent of a different race. When parents adopt a child or children of a different race, they need to be highly educated on that culture. Even though they might not believe in what that culture does, they still need to know about their child’s ethnical background. For instance, the child is of a different ethnicity of the parent, so they will have different grades of hair. If the parents do not educate themselves on their child’s ethnicity, then they will not know how to maintain their hair. Hair types are different for every ethnicity so you have to maintain them in different ways. Another thing that they will not understand if they do not educate themselves is body structure. Some ethnicities have different body structures than others. Other ethnicities might be smaller in size then others. For example, if an American decides to adopt a child of a Chinese ethnicity they might be under the impression that their child is not getting the right nutrition or that something is not going right, but the …show more content…
I do think that every child needs a place to call home and be loved by the people in it. I also understand that they say that it will not make the child a negative person because they will not know who they are but it will. Everyone wants to know where they come from in life, people even want to know who their descendants are. So for people to say race does not matter it does because you cannot just go through life living in one racial background knowing that you came from another. I think people would want to know these types of things. It might not make the child a negative person because they do not know where they come from, but they will have forever doubt on what they could have known. Children in foster care probably will not have a specific family they want and that is okay, but it is not okay to keep a child from knowing their roots. What if the child is teased about how they are different from their family, they will not know how to deal with it because “race does not matter”. Race should not matter, but in reality it does and in situations you not do not have to prepare interracial adoptees about this situation but every child needs to know about this situation. It is just at a higher risk with foster kids with different race parents. Everyone is equal, but we are all also different in many ways. It is okay for people to have different views on