Pros And Cons Of Interracial Adoption

Orphaned children should not be denied a family who wants to adopt them and they should not be stripped away from their adoptive families due to their race. Children are said to be the greatest gift that God blesses humans with. Sadly, some people struggle in receiving this precious gift due to infertility. Thankfully, adoption is an option these people have. However, due to racial diversities, families are often unable to adopt a child.

What does “The Law Sees Only Race,” written by Aditya Dynar, mean to you? Do you think someone could brutally strip a child away from their loving adoptive family? A six-year-old little girl was ripped away from her family and sent many miles away to live with another family of her race. This little girl

It prohibits any adoption agencies from denying a child from being adopted based solely on their race or ethnic background. Before this law was passed in the 1990’s, children were left in foster care for most of their life. Also, many children had the chance to be adopted by a loving family, however, they were denied because the family was of a different race. Despite this law changing the way adoption is looked at, it is also very inconsistent. MEPA is the belief that children should not be placed with a family of the same race. That it would benefit the child and their interests if they were placed in a family of a different ethnic group. To strengthen interracial adoption, Elizabeth Bartholet, a professor at Harvard Law School, provided information on the topic, “A law pending in Congress, known as Children in Families First, would begin to change this picture, redefining U.S. policy to support international adoption as one of the best options for meeting children’s basic human rights to parenting.” This law will change what MEPA deals with. Now that the law Children in Families First takes the place of MEPA, it will now deal with children of Native American families and children living abroad. Instead of completely prohibiting a child a family of the same race, it allows children to be placed in the first family that is best for the child’s

Some people think that race should never be a consideration--that "perfect vision is color blind.” Others feel that in an imperfect world where color matters, transracial adoptions are a kind of genocide that leave children unprepared to survive in a racist society. Robert Dale Morrison, a professor at Harvard Law School, sums up what interracial adoption is all about, “The quickest cure for racism would be to have everyone in the country adopt a child of another race. No matter what your beliefs, when you hold a four-day-old infant, love him, and care for him, you don’t see skin color, you see a little person that is very much in need of your love.” If everyone thought this way, a child would not go unwanted. This issue on race and the wellbeing of a child due to the color of their skin and where they are from, would not be a major part of adoption