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A 4 page overview of the different views on the appropriateness of transracial adoption. While many contend that removing a child from their cultural origin and placing them in a foreign culture is not acceptable because of its impacts to the child's culture of origin, others contend that achieving an immediate remedy to the problems that plague that child should be the foremost consideration. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Sullivan and Thompson (1984, 240) describe the family as the "oldest and most fundamental of all social institutions". Todays
families, however, have evolved considerably from our more traditional views of the family. Adoption is one of the factors that has propelled that evolution. Adoption introduces an assortment
of considerations that must be made if the best interest of both the child and the adoptive family are to be protected. Transracial adoption introduces an even greater complexity
of considerations. Shephard (1984, 388) defines family as "a group of people related by marriage, blood, or adoption". Typically this
traditional concept of family involves an extended family of grandparents and aunts and uncles as well (Turnbull and Turnbull, 1990, 21). These connections are more and more difficult today,
however, because for many individuals the nuclear family of yesterday is now more the exception than the rule even in U.S. mainstream culture. As an adopted child we are
members of two families, that of our adoptive parents and that of our biological parents. When the cultures of these two families differ there is the potential for a
number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by the fact that thousands of children are in need of loving homes and
thousands of families desire to provide those homes. When the racial background of those families differ from that of the children that they want to adopt, however, problems can
result. The thesis can be presented, in fact, that: "transracial adoption is not acceptable
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