Arguments Against Interracial Adoption

Interracial adoption is defined as the joining of racially different parents and children together in adoptive families (Silverman, 1993). Interracial Adoption also known as International and Transracial adoption has been a huge controversial issue for many years. Adopting a child of a different race has both benefits and misfortunes. The well being of the child is not taken into consideration as much as it should be. The main focus in some people’s minds is that the child will not know their culture and won’t be able to come to terms with the fact that they are a different race than their adoptive parents. However, interracial adoption should not be ridiculed because children receive a better understanding of their identity at an earlier age
Parents who are waiting to adopt wait for a few years before they can actually get a child of their race. To avoid waiting this long many people adopt children of a different race. The wait for these children is less expensive than waiting for a child of the same race. For instance, a White couple would have to go through numerous amounts of paperwork and time before they can adopt a White child and adopting a child of the same race is around 35,000 dollars as opposed to the 4,000 dollars of adopting a Black child (Schabner). Finding a White child for a White couple is harder because the White children cost more and there are less of them in the system. Finding a child that is of the same race, the gender, and the age the family is looking for is a challenge. When adopting a child some families are fairly specific about what they want in a child which makes the adoption process even more difficult. When the families cannot find what they want in a child they begin to become desperate and
They will only want love and affection from their parents (Perkins,2015). Over time some adopted children will realize that they are different from their parents and notice that they are different. The interracially adopted children cannot hide the fact that they are adopted because their skin is a different color than their parents, which lets the parents let out a breathe of relief because they don’t have to explain to them that they are adopted. This also helps the discussion about their parents come earlier which can either be relieving or stressful. The child realizes immediately that they are different from their parents and begin to ask questions which has to be answered to where a young child can understand. The younger a child is the less a parent wants to expose them to things in life that are not happy. For instance, parents can not say your real parents did not want you or they could not keep you anymore. They have to say something along the lines of your parents loved you very much and they wanted you to have a great home because they could not take care of you anymore, so they gave you to us. Parents must, in other words “sugarcoat” it to the child because their feelings can be hurt a lot easier when they are younger and this subject is fairly