Pros And Cons Of Transracial Adoption

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”-Leigh Anne Tuohy, mother of Michael Oher who was profiled in The Blind Side. There are people in society today who do not approve of transracial adoption. There are children out there seeking a home and as a society, there needs to be people out there finding and accepting homes, transracial or not, for these children. Therefore, society should accept transracial adoption. It has been discovered that it is easier to adopt a transracial child than a white child. These children have a possibility of a better life, have more honesty surrounding them, have a greater understanding of diversity, and transracial adoption leaves less children in foster care.

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Transracially adopted children will know they are adopted. “One advantage of adopting a child of another race is that it's hard to hide the fact that your child was adopted. You will never have to wonder whether to "tell" or when to tell; questions about your differences will come up and give you an opening.” (Perkins 4). Sadly there are adopted children who do not find out they are adopted until they are much older. This creates family rifts and sometimes the children eventually drift apart from their adoptive parents. Transracial adoption leaves no room for lies. The child will grow up knowing he was adopted. Seeing that their parents did not lie to them about adoption will let them know they have no need to lie or hide anything from their parents. Knowing they have a family who loves and accepts them will help transracially adopted children accept themselves. “[Abigail] Scott remembers noticing that everyone else in the room was white except her. ‘But they were all family so I didn’t feel ostracized or different,’ she says.” (Valby 12). Abigail knew her family accepted her and loved her. So when she went away to college and met other people she still felt comfortable with herself. Granted she did struggle a bit at first but she fully accepts herself now. She knows the support from her family helped her to love herself. When adopting a child most parents, if not all, are going to love their child from the moment they first see them. There are couples who cannot conceive a child and to have the opportunity to adopt means the world to them. These parents will tell their child the truth and will help them with their identity in any way. Parents who feel blessed by being able to adopt their child would not want to jeopardize it for the world. They are honest with their child and in return their children are more honest as well. Adoptive parents hold a firm foundation for their children, but