Interracial Adoption Nothing like Utopia by Thomas More

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Imagine that today’s society was one like Thomas More described in his famous work of literature Utopia, where everyone lived an idealistic life that had no social discrimination on anyone for their opinions or ideas, where everyone got along, and there were friendly neighbors in every corner of the street. Sadly, our society is nothing like that, since the word Utopia itself means “nowhere”. In today’s society, there is an immense amount of ideas and opinions about worldwide topics. People never seem to stop changing their opinions on topics that revolve around them, they might agree or disagree. Sometimes they might take action to do something about what they agree on and support it, or take action against an idea they might not like and disprove it. This can lead to serious complications for people on both sides, because no one can surely agree on something. That is why when a family participates in an interracial adoption, they need to be aware of the difficult and challenging position they and the adopted child are in, and how they can handle the circumstance so that it will not affect them or the child.
It is sad to know that in the United States, the amount of orphans appears to be very high and has many children of different races, there seems to be an approximate of 463,000 American kids in foster care, which 123,000 of the children are available for adoption, of those thirty percent are black, thirty nine percent are white, twenty one

percent are Hispanic and the rest are of other origins (Ravitz 2). When it comes to interracial adoption, parents usually tend to adopt a child of a different race because they can not have kids of their own, or the parents are not able to have kids. In the United States more white fami...

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...erracial adoption that came up with the conclusion that same race adoption leads to stronger bonds in families. And that same race adoption creates much more stronger bond with same race siblings than interracial adoption would (Pohl, Harris 49).
So truly, interracial adoption is a event in someone’s life that can bring severe consequences to parents and children if the parents are not aware of what problems they will face, including, financial, discriminatory. Interracial adoption will have a very positive future if the requirements are made to accommodate the child and the parents way of handling the situation. It may also bring harsh negative effects if the parents do not measure the consequences, the parents might receive racial criticism, the if the child receives it, then the problem there is really big if the child as not taught how to handle the situation.

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