Currently in the United States there are over 135,000 children adopted every year, whether that is through foster care, private domestic, through family members or through international adoption from other countries. “Of those children, half of them are white non-Hispanic, 18% are Hispanic, 18% are black or African-American, American Indian and Alaska Native make up 2%, and the rest of the adoptions come from international adoption.” (American Adoptions, 2017) As for the parents that adopt, 71% of all adopted children live with a white parent or family. So, this controversy is this, is biracial adoption into a family of a different race a good environment for the child? There are many ways for a family looking to adopt, to do so. There is domestic adoption, which is adopting an American child. There is adopting a child from a family member, which falls under domestic but the process is a little different. Then there is international adoption, which is adopting from a foreign country. There are different ways to …show more content…
Adoptive parents that choose to do TRA are required to take classes to prepare them for those situations and so they understand what that child may experience. Those parents can find a mentor for that child that is the same race whether it is through the school athletics program, church or in the community. “Parents whose children attend public schools and whose children attend ethnically diverse schools would be more likely to frequently discuss children's heritage with them.” (Csizmadia, Annamaria, and Kaneakua, 2014) Some families choose to adopt another child that is either the same race or as equally as diverse to give the child not only a sibling, but another family member that knows what it is like to be different than his or her