Pros And Cons Of Transracial Adoption

Transracial adoption can be defined as the joining of racially different parents and children together in adoptive families (Silverman, 1993). Before 1920 adopting a child adopting who is not related only occurred with children who had no relatives capable of the taken care of them. The child would usually be adopted by a family that needed extra help maintaining their business or maintain their property. Transracial adoption became prevalent following paramount events such as World War II, the Civil Rights Movement and the Indian Placement Act, which opened white people’s eyes to the need of minorities living in the United States and abroad. Andrew Morrison transracial adoption Pro and cons of …..
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Cite Do children who are transracially adopted develop healthy ethnic identity? If not, what can be done to assist these children in developing a healthy ethnic ability? What are some of the ramifications of a child adopted transracially failing to develop a healthy ethnic identity? Does age effect these ramifications? Is it acceptable to deny or delay the adoption process based on a parent’s race? What are some of the challenges faced by children who are transracially adopted from another country? How does being transracially adopted effect a person over time? What are repercussion of a child stuck in foster care? Is transracial adoption in the best interest of the adoptee? These questions are imperative to transracial adoption due to the number of minority children that are in need of adoption. That number exceeds the amount of minority parents who are adopting, therefore discrimination is not an
Members of the NABSW appreciate the effort white people are making to adopt black children but the members also feel white parents do not understand the different aspects of being a person of color and the children who were adopted by white parents would not be able to deal with racism (Park). African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American children who are adopted transracially do have trouble dealing with racism and cultural differences between themselves and their parents. In some cases, this happens when the adopted child identifies with their white parent and does not identify with the race from which they came. In one study, the researchers were interested in what happen when children of color were adopted by white families, lived in predominantly white neighborhoods and who were sent to predominantly white schools. The majority of these children saw black people as ignorant, poor, militant and unintelligent. If the transracially adopted child developed a negative perception regarding their own race, then the child might subconsciously gravitate towards the race of their parents causing them to lose their ethnic identity. On the other hand, a black child adopted by a black family who lived in a culturally diverse neighborhood and attended a culturally integrated school was more likely to identify with their race and feel proud of their