Effects Of Cross Cultural Adoption

The U.S. has adopted over 30 thousand children from other countries since 2010. (Statistics) There has been evidence of children who have been abandoned or neglected being relocated to new families ever since the 1850’s. It wasn 't until the 1950’s when Catholic single women in Quebec weren 't allowed to keep their illegitimate babies and they had to get sent to the U.S. for adoption. Then in the 1970’s, after vietnam and China’s one child law cross- cultural adoption skyrocketed. cross- cultural adoption is a type of adoption where an individual or couple becomes the legal parents of a child who is from a different culture, ethnicity, or community then they are. There are several problems with cross- cultural adoption that affects the child 's mental well-being and cultural identity. These problems are caused in part by the parents’ lack of cultural awareness and the community’s lack of understanding.

First of all is parents’ having lack of cultural awareness. Cultural awareness is the ability of standing back from ourselves and becoming aware of our cultural values, beliefs and perceptions and then asking ourselves why we act in

The food of ones culture is one way of showing who you identify with. In Massimo’s book Food Is Culture he says,“Food takes shape as a decisive element of human identity and is one of the most effective means of expressing and communicating that identity.” (Montanari xii) The food of their birth culture shows what their blood family and people who look like them eat. For example some well known Chinese dishes such as sweet and sour pork, or gong bao chicken are very different than Greek food such as Baklava, or Moussaka. These two Immensely different dishes in themselves share with us much of the culture of these very different Civilization’s. Such as their tastes what sort of food is most available to them and many of the skills that each location