Inside Interracial Adoption

Inside Interracial Adoption Adoption in general may be unfamiliar to many. It can be very insensitive to the people it is trying to serve: the children. The process should entail finding the best family for the child who needs one, as opposed to finding the best child for the family who wants one. When the factor of an adoption that crosses racial boundaries is added to the equation, strong opinions may surface. One may begin …

…discussed. They are all as varied as the children at this heart of this matter. The most important factor to remember is that the children and their well-being is the issue that should be kept at the forefront and not be lost among the motives and politics. In closing, “The racial attitudes and behavior as well as [the American people’s] attitudes toward adoption itself will, more than anything else, determine these children’s outcomes.”51