What are your views on interracial/international adoption?
as in white people adopting black babies, asian babies, etc. Black people adopting white babies, Asian babies, etc. A person of one nationality adopting someone of another nationality, etc.
Well do you worry at all about the complications of taking someone out of their their racial/national heritage or culture or community?
And it’s not even completely a color issue, though that would be where more significant and visual issues would arise. What about an American person/couple adopting a Swedish child. There is potentially a different heritage/background and how would that affect?
Race matters, language matters and culture matters. So I would hope homes would be found that make it easiest on the child. However a home with loving parents is much better than a life growing up without any.
All International adoptive parents should be provided with or required to hire bi-lingual nannies or speak the native language fluently.
its wrong
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is it wrong for a red head to adopt a child with brown hair? Is it wrong for parents with blue eyes to adopt children with brown eyes? is it wrong for hearing parents to adopt a deaf child?
what IS wrong is how much emphasis people are putting on skin colour…
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What does it matter? you are wanting to give a child a better life, black, pink, yellow or green, colour and nationality shouldn’t matter.
EDIT: As long as the adoption is legal and if the parents are prepared to teach the child about it’s heritage what is the problem?
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It’s the best. Taking a child out of poverty, good on ya!
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miss me? hahaha no but seriously, I don’t see what’s wrong with it… bla bla bla..
It hasn’t worked out for me.
I hate that I’ve lost everyone & everything that pertains to my birth right.
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I think its sad when Aps speak for their achildren…..they are the one’s that got their fix and didn’t have to lose anything or anyone in the process.
Adoption is adoption whether you adopt the kid down the the street or halfway across the world. If they come from another place or ethnicity, just be sure that you retain their culture in their lives when they live with you. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. =]
As long as you’re a thoughtful parent you can make it work for you and the child.
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I don’t see of that as an issue. There are many other issues that are more important I believe.
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Interracial is fine as long as the parents (and children if they are old enough) know what they are getting into. Some races have special hair needs, different religions, different religions that require special foods, different languages, etc.
International adoption should be a last resort. We have thousands of children needing to be adopted here.
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Abrupt native language loss in international adoptees
http://www.adoptionarticlesdirectory.com/Article/Abrupt-native-language-loss-in-international-adoptees/31721
It is impossible to imagine an evil scientist masterminding an experiment to study the consequences of a young child being forced to forget his or her first language and urgently learn a new language in a state of frustration and intimidation. However, life is often more brutal than any imaginable scientific design. We have literally thousands of children who went through this process due to international adoption.
Practically all children adopted by monolingual English-speaking families lose their native language. The phenomenon of language attrition is not new. In the United States it mostly was studied in immigrant children whose families continued to speak their native language.
From the limited research it transpires that language attrition in international adoptees follows the general pattern found in bilingual children from immigrant families: literacy skills disappear first (in older children), then expressive language, and after that receptive language.1,2The study of the specifics of the linguistic mechanism, dynamic and patterns of first language attrition in international adoptees is still in its embryonic phase. The psycho-educational consequences of first language loss in this population have been studied even less, even though these issues have tremendous practical significance.
There’s more to the article, same as there’s more to the site: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+site:www.adoptionarticlesdirectory.com+international+adoptees
Abrupt native language loss in international adoptees
Cumulative Cognitive Deficit in international adoptees: its origin …
PTSD in Internationally Adopted Children
Cognitive, Language, and Educational Issues of Children Adopted …
Educational and Mental Health Intervention for Internationally …
Notes on ADHD in internationally adopted children
FAS in internationally adopted children
The signs of speech and language delay in young internationally …
etc. etc. etc.
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Abandoned to adoption at 7mths old. I didn’t have a bad adoption – my afamily are the best I could ever have chosen… but if I’d been able to choose, and I’d known then what I know now, I’d've chosen to be aborted before birth instead, ’cause at least that way the lifetime of agony I’ve gone through would’ve been over in minutes, instead of the decades that I’ve been suffering for now.
Been in reunion a few months, and even that’s agonising.
Abandoned early 1973. Reunited late 2009.
Survivin’ (just about) thanks to my daughter
I think it’s very complicated and should not be taken lightly. Yes, there are race issues to worry about. Love may be "color blind" but our society sure isn’t! Separating a child from his/her homeland should only be done if there is nobody in their biological family willing or able to meet their needs and there are no adoptive homes within their own country for them. Sadly, the case is that for a lot of children in the world, this isn’t possible. Fortunately, IA parents are more educated regarding the importance of not losing culture or language when adoption happens across country lines. There are many more resources available to help IA families keep their children connected to their culture of birth. That wasn’t the case 30+ years ago.
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Race matters, language matters and culture matters. So I would hope homes would be found that make it easiest on the child. However a home with loving parents is much better than a life growing up without any.
All International adoptive parents should be provided with or required to hire bi-lingual nannies or speak the native language fluently.
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absolutley nothing wrong with it. there are very very ignorant people in this world that place huge emphasis on somehting as small as the color of somones skin. i mean people are seriously more concerned of the parent and childs skin color than that of the childs well being. who says a child who is black in a white family will not thrive just as well as a white child in a white family. only when that child is told that it is wrong by society does that child feel it wrong or feel ashamed of it. we are born into this world free of judgement and biases, only society put these thoughts in our heads. i remeber as a child not even noticing that black children and asian children and indian children and hispanic children were any different then me. children have pure eyes and are not weighed down with societal judgements. this is how we were broughjt into this world and it is how we are meant to be color blind. judge not by the color of skin but by the content of character.
of course heritage and such things should be taught to a child based on where they come from. they should be given every oppurtunity to leanr what they wish about where they come from the lanuage and the people. this is important. the most important thing is the child is taken from unfortunate situations and placed in a home with there essential needs with loving people.
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