Interracial Adoption for the Good of the People

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Interracial adoption is an unhealthy thing for adoptees and challenges them to learn about their native culture. Although, it may provide a better economic living and educational life, it deprives from cultural knowledge and maybe even ethical traits. “While adoption does materially improve the lives of many individual children, at the same time, adoption burdens adoptees for life with enormous psychological challenges and emotional hurdles that must be continually renegotiated at different stages of the life span.” (Raible)
The moment you adopt across racial lines, your family is multicultural. Unfortunately, not all communities in America have an equal amount of interracial families. Thanks to interracial adoption, the number of multiracial families in America is growing exponentially, but there are plenty of communities and towns in which such families are still one cultured. Although, this may seem like a good idea, it lacks from diversity, which leads up to racism if not taken the correct way.
Both of the adoptive parents have to agree on having a transracial adoption. An adoptive parent who claims that his or her child’s race and ethnicity is of little or no importance ultimately fails to recognize, accept, and know a crucial part of that child’s identity. Finally, insisting that a child’s race “doesn’t really matter” often means ignoring and this fails to prepare the adoptees for his or her very uneasy challenges she or he could face as a member of a racial and/or ethnic minority in the United States. Also showing the deterioration to celebrate and love the child they have. Not just any parent should adopt a child that is from a different ethnical background unless, they are prepared to teach them because “Some white pro...

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