Comments on: Transracial Adoption, Interracial Families, and Social Change

By: Marlene

Marlene — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:11:56 +0000

alsa

I serched the web trying to find information concerning issue of trans racial adoption. I doing a issues paper. Why should transracial adoption be allowed? I am not finding any information that will help with one of my point: transracial children do better academically & educationally than children in foster care. Do you know of any site that will support my points?
Thanks

By: curiousgyrl

curiousgyrl — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:36:22 +0000

Chuck;

“end of story…”

I dont think it will be the ‘end of story.’ There are really good books about transracial adoption; its definitely an aparent/afamilies job to be informed about transracial adoption issues and teh experiences of transracial adoptees, as well as race and racism in general. This is very important stuff, is all I’m saying, from personal experience.

Congratulations and best of luck!

By: Charles Rathmann

Charles Rathmann — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:45:40 +0000

Interesting treatise. As my wife and I prepare to adopt our daughter — who would be considered biracial — I think we are avoiding thinking about things in ideological terms. We are adopting our daughter locally, and feel strongly led to do this rather than adopt from overseas. It so happens that our daughter was available for adoption, and she is a wonderful healthy baby — end of story. We know there will be complications that flow from the fact that our child’s appearance is different from our own — but in no way do we feel that our adoption is an attempt to be politically correct, make political statements or improve society — with the caveat that we would like to improve society by raising a happy, healthy child.

~ Chuck

By: Rachel S.

Rachel S. — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:31:14 +0000

Thanks Fred. I thought that I may get a negative reaction based on the comments from my last post.

By: Fred Vincy

Fred Vincy — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:59:29 +0000

I’m not sure what feathers this would ruffle — it’s a very careful and precise description of where we are and where the evidence suggests we might be going.

By: feminist blogs

feminist blogs — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Naro% has you tube links to stories about TRA (they sooo back up my previous post) Here’s My Post at Alas It’s worth it to read the comments because they were very different than those on this site. posted 10:39 pm at Alas, a blog