e not enough adoptive black people to match the estimated 8,000 black children in foster care. If critics looked at the overall benefits of the children, than they would not let the children sit in foster care. That is the most influential part of their lives. The longer the child sits in foster care, the more likely they will have psychological problems when they grow older. The NAACP has a strong opinion on transracial adoption, which they stated in 1992: Whereas, there are a number of black children up for adoption; and Where as, black children are among the most difficult to place in adopted homes; and Where as, there is a policy, written and unwritten, by many agencies to place black children only with black people; Now therefore let it be resolved, that the NAACP sponsors and supports efforts for legislation that will encourage policies that place black children for adoption without regard to race(Bender/Leone 204) There are some drawbacks to transracial adoption that you cannot prevent. The danger of racism will always be a factor. Parents can try to help their children cope with the problem. Some of the troubles that a black child might have to go through are: coping with racism, building self esteem when treated as an inferior, developing pride in a racial and cultural background, developing an individual identity as a nonwhite person, and at the same time consider themselves an interracial person. Sometimes parents will move to an all white neighborhood after receiving the transracial child, to provide a better education or because it is a nicer and cleaner community. One should research different neighborhoods to make sure their is no trace of racism. But there is always the fear of being the only black kid in school. Some questions that might need to be answered are; why do people stare at me? Why are people meaning to me for no reason? These are all bound to happen at one point in time because of peoples ignorance. At some ...
