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Transracial Adoption

Do you believe Transracial Adoption is okay? What are your views on it and why do you think so?

Adoption Transracial

Another very complex subject.

Personally, I have no problems whatsoever with interracial adoption. However, in my experience, it is very, very difficult for all involved.

I have a cousin (very white) who adopted two African-American babies. Both grew up to be very nice, wonderful young people. However, they both also rejected the culture in which they were raised, embracing some of the worst aspects of current US African-American culture, including out-of-wedlock pregnancies, no need for a father in the home, etc. It has caused tremendous pain to the adoptive parents.

I see a lot of problems, but I also see a lot of children who need to be adopted.

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I agree with Nighthawk that there is the potential for a lot of problems. There is also the rejection factor for the kids involved, where neither race accepts them because of their situation. However, I think there is a bigger problem with abortions and kids who go through the 'system' where any type of adoption, transracial or not, is needed so that kids end up in a home and have a family.

Adoption Transracial

Hmmm I'm not sure about this. It is a very complicated issue. If you have kids of your own and decide to adopt a child of another race, he will be the center of looks, comments and all sort of stuff....it will be very difficult to deal with, it does not matter your background.The child will end up suffering and the adoptive parents will end up heart breaking.

Adoption Transracial

Well, I don't think it is the ideal, but from what I have read in the past, there is a real shortage of people of color wanting to adopt. If this is the case, I would think a transracial adoption would be better than having the child grow up in foster care. In foster care, you often aren't placed with members or your race either, but at least if you were adopted you might feel wanted and loved more so than if you have to bounce from one foster home to another your entire life.

Transracial Adoption

In my opinion this quote was spot on!

Sadly, there aren't enough non white people come forward to adopt (this isn't meant to be racial, but political correctness makes it hard to word it without offending people)
So therefore, a lot of children end up staying in foster care, to suit the political correctness of the situation.

It is in my opinion, always best to try to 'match' up any child with their own culture/religion/race, but when this really cannot be done, then it is far better for a child to at least have a family of their own, regardless of the race of the adopters.

Personally,myself and my Husband used to foster children, and we were placed a mixed race child in our care (We are both white)
The little boy was making great progress, and settled in really well, he was a great little boy and we loved him to pieces.Unfortunately, in Social Services great wisdom, they had a policy where it wasn't politically correct to have white carers looking after a non white child,so they sent him miles and miles away to live with a non white family (who ironically were fostering a white child, which we felt was double standards) it broke our hearts, as he was sobbing his heart out as they took him to this other family, who he didn't know, or wasn't familiar with.

If you have love for a child, then you have love for the child regardless of skin color.

Transracial Adoption

I think transracial adoption is very okay. As I mentioned in another thread, my sister and her husband, who are white, adopted a black boy when he was only a few weeks old. There were concerns about his not being accepted by either race and his not understanding his own heritage. However, my sister wanted another child and could not have one naturally. The children that need to be adopted are not white. The boy is eleven now and has a natural love for his culture and his heros are of his own race. He especially loves Martin Luther King and Michael Jordan. His family, friends, and all who love him don't even see the color difference. Those who do, and make harsh judgements based on it, don't matter.

I wonder if the fact they they were adopted inter-racially has anything to do with their choices here. Any child, natural born or adopted, can and do make bad decisions.