1. Interracial adoption
Karen Antoine, a black woman who was adopted at birth by a white family, said when she was younger she felt that if she had grew up in a black family she would have had more friends, been accepted by more people, and would not have been teased as a child. "Social workers say that children adopted by white families will not know how to function as a black, because their white parents will not have known how to give them a black identity and survival skills. Although they will have a white identity whites will refuse to accept them because of their color. Thus the adopted children will never be comfortable with their identity because they will not be granted the opportunity by blacks or whites to adopt in their worlds" (Ladner 81). When the child realizes that he is not being accepted by either one of the two races, he will begin to feel insecure and will not accept himself. .
The outcome of the interracial adoption may cause the child to face problems with other children in and out of school. It has been proven that one a group of school aged children realize that another child is different from them, they began to tease and taunt the different child. This makes the child feel unwanted and unsecured and he will not want to go anywhere with his parent because of the fear of being teased. Until recently, little consideration has been taken in what the best interests of the children are. Most social workers felt as if the child's needs were being served by virtue of the fact that he was being provided a permanent home with adoptive parents instead of foster parents (Ladner 56). As Jennifer, a black teenager adopted by a white family disagrees with the black social workers nonchalant stance on transracial adoptions, she says, "the simple truth is that there aren't enough black families to go around," she does not agree with putting a child in just any home (Love 160). Placing a child in any type of home as well as the wrong home can cause severe depression for the rest of the child's younger years and possibly throughout adulthood.
Transracial adoption should be encouraged among all prospective adopters. Transracial adoption is the adoption of a child of a race different from the adoptive parent. ... Some people believe that transracial adoption is wrong. ... Ronnie Diamond says, "Parents must understand that they"re not white parents with a black or Asian child, but they've become an interracial and multicultural family" (Lang 2). ... Transracial adoption should be encouraged. ...
In Ann Quindlen's, "Evan's Two Moms", Quindlen gives several examples as to why gay adoptions and marriages should be legal. ... She starts off by telling about a situation where gay adoption was excepted. In her first paragraph she states that, " a judge in New York approved an adoption of a six-year-old by his biological mother's lesbian partner"(410). ... Quindlen compares the legalizing of gay marriages today to the struggles of interracial marriages in the past. ... Making it legal for interracial couples to marry. ...
Massachusetts" adoption law set the stage for what became the standard practice of handling adoptions in the United States. ... In choosing this issue, I discovered that the closing of adoption records has become an extremely emotional controversy that is dividing the adoption community. ... Not only have they adopted, but they have interracially adopted, and people have their own feelings toward that as well. The interracial part of the adoption makes the time where this little girl says, "Mommy and daddy, why am I black and you are white?" ... Sealed adoption records seem to be most benefi...
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court decided that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional. ... As did the interracial couples of the sixties, the gays and lesbians of America deserve to have the privilege of marriage extended to them. ... Says David Mixner in Time magazine, "The issue involves immigration, taxation, family leave, health care, adoption, Medicare, and numerous other benefits and rights. ... If gay marriages were approved, adoption agencies would continue to investigate the couple requesting adoption, as they have always done. ... The issue of adoption is ...
The best friends of the Jeffersons were the Willises, an interracial couple ("Network and Cable"). ... Many other shows had a few episodes with interracial relationships, yet, The Jeffersons had a interracial couple as supporting actors on the show. ... The boy was from an interracial show named Dif"rent Strokes. 8-year-old Arnold with his famous, "Whatchu talkin about Willis", and his 12-year-old brother Willis were two black kids from Harlem who found themselves suddenly in the lap of luxury. ... There was a huge controversy over the interracial relationships between the two boys and Philip....
Interracial marriage was illegal in many US states until 1967 also ("A historical look at Marriage"). ... In 1967 Supreme Court revoked the laws that prohibited interracial unions. ... According to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, in March 2013, 400 000 children in the United States were living without permanent families. One fourth of these children are eligible for adoption and 20% of them will never be adopted by a foster family (Klein). ...
Now, interracial marriages are normal and understandable by most societies. ... Many people say that legalization of adoption by homosexuals is a "sick" idea. ... However, adoption is the most popular way of having children. ... ACLU states that when the same sex couples decide for adoption, they have to get through a long and rigorous adoption process. ... A few states still consider a parent's sexual orientation in adoption decisions. ...
Although, interracial couples have been more accepted in our society today, it was not always that way. ... In most cases, biracial children were automatically put up for adoption, without hesitation from the parents. ... Crocetto was 18 months old his mother gave him up for adoption so that she could marry her fiancé, Joe Blanchard. ...