Imagine that today's society was the one described by Thomas More in his famous literary work Utopia, where everyone lived an idealistic life without social discrimination against anyone for their opinions or ideas , where everyone got along and there were friendly neighbors on every street corner. Unfortunately, our society is not like that at all, since the word Utopia itself means “nowhere”. In today's society there is a huge amount of ideas and opinions on global topics. People never seem to stop changing their opinions on the topics that revolve around them, they might agree or disagree. Sometimes they might take action to do something about what they agree with and support it, or take action against an idea they might not like and refute it. This can lead to serious complications for people on both sides, because no one can definitely agree on anything. That's why when a family participates in an interracial adoption, they need to be aware of the difficult and challenging situation they and the adopted child are in and how they can handle the circumstance so it doesn't affect them or the child. it is sad to know that in the United States the number of orphans seems to be very high and there are many children of different races, it seems that there are about 463,000 American children in foster care, of which 123,000 children are available for adoption, of these thirty percent are black, thirty-nine percent are white, twenty-one percent are Hispanic, and the rest are of other origins (Ravitz 2). When it comes to interracial adoption, parents usually tend to adopt a child of a different race because they cannot have children of their own, or the parents cannot have children. In the United States, more white families... center of paper... irregular adoptions concluded that same-race adoption leads to stronger bonds in families. And that same racial adoption creates a much stronger bond with same-race siblings than interracial adoption would (Pohl, Harris 49). So, in truth, interracial adoption is an event in someone's life that can bring serious consequences to parents and children if the parents are not aware of the problems they will face, including financial and discriminatory ones. Interracial adoption will have a very positive future if the requirements are made to accommodate the child and the way the parents handle the situation. It could also bring serious negative effects if parents do not measure the consequences, parents may receive racial criticism, if the child receives it, then the problem is really big if the child is not taught how to handle the situation.
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