Effects of Transracial Adoption

Effects of Transracial Adoption

Introduction

Transracial adoption has been a subject of great debate over the past few decades. The issue has received extreme importance especially with the adoption of children from African countries (Scarr et. al, 2005). Many studies have been conducted on the subject and predominantly adoption of colored children by Caucasian parents. Transracial adoption refers to the placement of a child belonging to a particular ethnic group into the different race of its adoptive parents (DeBerry et. al, 1996). The number of Caucasian children put up for adoption each year is quite low as compared to ...