An Inside Look at Interracial Adoption

Adoption is a process that people go through just so that they can have a child that they would love forever. Also couples who adopt children want the children to have a better life and not be stuck in the foster care system. Some people out there believe that children of their background should be brought up in their own back ground not in a different one than their own. In my eyes, I see that adoption is when someone who decides to be the caretaker and provider for a child who needs that influence in their lives. The actual definition of adoption is the act or fact of adopting or being adopted. Although interracial adoption is on the up rise it brings other people to wonder if it’s the right thing to do as in if its right to bring a colored child into a white house hold, because the impact on the child that is being adopted, it is an opportunity for the child to not be a quitter or give up because no one loved them, love has no color and that a child belongs to a family that will love them no matter what, for the reason being because a child is a different color than the adoptive parents it should not matter if they are different colors than each other as long as you love them and show them that someone cares about them and that they belong here with people who does love them .

For many years children have been given up for adoption or put into foster homes and some children who are put there might be lucky enough to get chosen to be adopted. Well there is an issue with that growing upon us and that is interracial adoption. Being a child who is in foster homes are generally hard to get adopted but it is even harder for an African American male. If they don’t get adopted they might end up in jail and have kids. The reason why c...

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...should be in black homes and white children should be in white homes. That is what the people would get out of reading these articles. interracial adoptions are becoming more popular but yet at the same time people are getting concerned because of the color of the child’s skin the adoptive parents are adopting, also the impact of their lives in the situation of being in a house with adoptive parents of different color, and the behavior of the children when they get older will change due to them being different in a home different from them. Although in the question that people who are adopting the different colored children are asking does it really matter what color they are as long as we show them that we love them.

Works Cited

"Transracial Adoptions Raise Parenting Dilemmas." NPR Talk of the Nation. 11 May. 2011: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 May. 2014