Pros And Cons Of Transracial Adoption

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Introduction: Adoption is a beautiful process to provide a child who needs a loving home and family just that; however, one of the biggest controversies the adoption world is dealing with is the choice of transracial adoption. Transracial adoption is when a child is adopted by a family with a different racial or cultural background. In the article Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color written by Leslie Hollingsworth explains how adoption came about in 1940 during the end of WWII. By 1971 people started to oppose transracial adoption due to Black Children not fitting into the right family. The article explains how only black families can give the children emotional and psychological development to black children because of their