The Interracial Mix for a Purer Race
"Black children belong in black homes even if white families are capable and willing to raise them." How is it that Americans can expect racial development, if people such as the National Association of Black Social Workers, a black advocacy group started to address social issues for blacks, are willing to remark in such a way to the idea of interracial adoption? One can fall into the ideas of the NABSW, but in reality people must realize that interracial adoption is a factor in the growth and progression of not only the United States, but of the entire world, and for that reason interracial adoption should be accepted and encouraged. In a racially mixed family, an interracially adopted child is greatly influenced by perspectives on society and race that eventually help build that child's social, racial and personal identity. Therefore, the child becomes a better citizen, and from familial experience has more to offer in society.
An interracially adopted child must undergo many racial stereotypes that in life will only make him/her stronger and a more appealing person to society. With the help of their adoptive parents the child can accept the fact that racial distinctions are created by society, and that they should not be affected by the words or thoughts of the people around them. For example, Anthony Petronelli, a black man adopted by white parents, believes that he is "more open-minded as a result of growing up with white parents." Anthony's situation is a very important example of how an interracially adopted child can grow in advantage to other children, and just like Anthony, interracial children eventually become active members in society. Interracially adopted children are adva...
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...l adoption, society can gain enough to leave the past behind, and move on to a better future.
Interracial adoption and social perceptions on race and society help develop a person's racial, social, and personal identities that altogether lead to the making of a better person. The willingness of a person to help out a child in need of a family, no matter what race, should be the only thing looked at when thinking about interracial adoption. But of course, society's ignorance cannot allow a child to live a happy life, unless it is with their own kind, as if they were a breed of a dog. However, interracial adoption is allowing society to break the barriers between races, and allowing a more united and diverse race to be created. All that the people need to do is accept that one day the world needs to be united before it is brought to an end because of racial conflicts.
School and peer relationships were equal in importance to the family as socializing agents as the child grew older. In terms of racial identity, the adoptees moved in one of three directions: true self-hate or an acceptance of the values of the dominant group and a resulting belief in white superiority and black inferiority; acceptance of one's blackness as a positive virtue without any element of self-hate; and a mixture of self-hate and self-acceptance, an ambivalent feeling about one's racial identity, with positive feelings about some aspects and 'negative feelings about other aspects. Three of the adoptees fell into the third category, and one fell into the first.
If this situation had happened, say back fifty to sixty years ago this would be a genuine concern to have. As Albom continues his research into the subject yet again can the audience find a person from this community vouching that he does not understand the issues especially since several Mennonite couples have adopted black children (Albom 3). To further support the author’s argument, the reader must look too a book excerpt published in The American Prospect by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn. While she was a white child born into a black family she provides a first-hand account of how the environment around a child counts for everything (O’Hearn 1). This applies to Albom’s argument in a sense that when the chips fall where they may, it is solely the two parent’s duty to make this young girl feel accepted. This can be further seen when O’Hearn mentions something James McBride wrote, “‘I never once in my life woke up not knowing whether I should eat matzo ball or fried chicken. I never once felt I’d be able to play the sax better if my mom had been black, or that I’d have been better at math if my father were Jewish. I like me, and like me because my parents liked me’ ” (Qtd. In O’Hearn 3). This further proves that if the parents of the child in Albom’s argument have sole responsibility on the outcome of their new child’s perception of life. O’Hearn cites Julia Jefferson Westernian who did an interview on NBC’s Nightly News,” ‘It’s such an American thing to have a drop of this and a drop of that’ ” (Qtd. In O’ Hearn 1). While the child in Albom’s argument may be based on a child who is predominately two races inside of a combination of multiple genomes, it is almost impossible for anyone to have a genuine claim to judge. This is just because at this point in the human existence it is nearly impossible for someone to be purely any single thing. Through
African-American parents and grandparents play a pivotal role in the socialization of children as they help
Interracial adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color with white adoptive parents. Interracial adoption in America are seen less as a taboo today, but as out of the norm.. Even though “the U.S. Adopts more children... domestically, than the rest of the world combined.”[ Adam Pertman, Adoption Nation (Boston, Mass.: Harvard Common Press, 2011).] It is also prevalent to mention that White Americans serve overwhelmingly as the adopting race and also exercise the most control in the adoption process.[ David Ray Papke, 'Transracial Adoption In The United States: The Reflection And Reinforcement Of Racial Hierarchy ', SSRN Journal (2013).] Their white privilege continues into
The analysis explored in this document is implementing a program UNIT for parents adopting a different race from their own. Adopting outside of a race is a life altering decision because of regulating mechanisms that condition people to accept or reject individuals based on their appearances. There are not any programs that guide transracial adoptions after they occur. Society as a whole has its own prejudices. The adoptive parents should know about their children’s cultural backgrounds. Society is not very conscience of prejudging it is just something that is a part of life. This is unfortunately one more issue dealt with by adopted children.
In present day, now that racism prejudice and segregation is something that children learn about in history books, there is a new issue surrounding adoption. It is now considered controversial when a couple of one race wishes to adopt a child of another race. Transracial adoption is a topic that must be confronted and dealt with so that all children in need of a permanent home can get the best family possible.
Poverty is a cause of adoption of children today. Some of the people in the vast population of developing countries are languishing in poverty. The gap between the poor and the rich is widening with time and this has led to increase in poverty levels in various parts of the world. This is where Canadian individuals, unable to have children of their own, or wanting to make a difference in a child’s life become parents and saviors.
According to a research done by an instructor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Baruch College of the City University of New York, found that out of the over two hundred surveyed, almost three-quarter of the black families do not have a problem with their children marrying outside their race. Black families are normally more accepting of the interracial relationship and the white partner than white families are of the black partner. Often the couple lives in a black or integrated community because of the disapproval they experience in all white communities. In a majority of the relationships the initial responses of the white parents were hesitation or rejection, but they eventually come around once the...
Reinoso, M., Juffer, F., & Tieman, W. (2013). Children's and parents' thoughts and feelings about adoption, birth culture identity and discrimination in families with internationally adopted children.Developmental Psychology, 18(3), 264-274. Retrieved from http://ejournals.ebsco.com.logon.lynx.lib.usm.edu/Direct.asp?AccessToken=9IIIMIJ8X5D5KEREZM4EMUQ4D9PK8X5QIX&Show=Object
All around the world there are thousands even millions of children who are waiting to be adopted. Many who are troubled children, and for that reason they are from foster home to foster home. The ideal American "family" is with a man and a woman. In the United States we have same-sex couples who are wanting to adopt, but they are being turned down due to their sexual preference. Same-sex relationships are much more stable than the average heterosexual relationship. Having a stable relationship ensures an emotionally steady home for a foster child. “Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation. Rather, it is influenced most profoundly by a parent’s ability to create a loving and nurturing home” (“LGBT Adoption”). Same-sex couples are more likely to adopt “hard to place” children with challenging behavior or disabilities.
For my research paper I chose to write about how adoption can effect a child’s development: physical development, cognitive development and social/emotional development. For the sake of this paper I think it will be helpful to define adoption; adoption is defined as to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one 's own child, specifically by a formal legal act (Dictionary, 2016).Before I begin according to an Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System article in 2015 53,549 children were adopted using a welfare involvement. I am adopted and while I think I had some disadvantages I believe there were definitely advantages to me being adopted. I will also give specific examples on how my adoption can affect a child’s physical, cognitive and social/emotional development.
According to American academy and adolescent psychiatry, about 120,000 children are adopted in the United States alone. That is a lot of children that need to find a new home to stay in. Not only do adoptions affect the child after they are adopted, no matter the age; but adoption also affects the parents giving their child up for adoption. There are many types of adoptions. Along with that, there are many reasons for giving the child up for adoption. There are three main perspectives that I will be talking about. One function would be the structural functionalism. How society cooperates. The second would be the conflict perspective. The third would be symbolic interactionism approach. There are many different aspects of adoption, making it
When a couple or individual decides to adopt a child, they know they are going to take on the responsibility of taking care of someone else’s child. Due to the biological parent(s) who can’t take care of that child anymore, because of either drug abuse, alcohol abuse, abuse to the child or if the parent(s) had died and there is no other care for the child. So that’s why this gives other couples who cannot have kids, the opportunity to promise themselves to be a great parent to a child in need. Though there are some bad things about adoption as well. Like adopting a child from another country of another race, because once that child is adopted into an American family, he or she will be cut off from their culture and never know about their history. Everyone should to know about their culture and history.
It is more common for these adoptive families to be transracial. Therefore there are two different races within the family. Families of transracial adoptions have many unique qualities because they have two different cultures under one roof. The problem with transracial adoption is the cultural difference between the parents and the child. The family is not prepared to understand the child’s background or the child’s culture. Relatability is also something that the child needs in the household and this would something that this family would lack. Like we talked about in class the child would suffer because they do not have anyone in their family to relate to. A child’s self-esteem would most likely be lower than a child growing up in a same race family. The child does not see anyone in their family that looks like them so they feel as if they are not good enough. It is hard for a child to fully understand as to why they are different from their families and why they were not blessed to look like their family. This creates self-identity issues for the child because they do not know who they should identify with and cannot tell where they fit in. Promotion of acceptance amongst the family would be something that could help the child’s self-esteem and
Adoption has many pros and cons, such as cross-cultural. Cross-cultural in adoption is when a child and the adopting parents are two different races or come from two different cultures. Cross-cultural adoption is not the same thing as interracial adoption. Some people say that you should not do this because the child may not feel like they fit in with the family. Others say it is great that the child found a loving family that will be getting taken care of. The caring person would agree that it is good and okay to adopt a child with a different race or culture.