Child Abuse across Culture

Child Abuse across Culture

Child Abuse across Culture

Introduction

Being a child in the world today can be confusing and complicated. Dealing with peer pressure, family pressures and growing pains may feel insurmountable to a child that's struggling to gain their identity. Learning who they are and where they fit within the context of a family is more complicated for children growing up in adoptive families than it is for children growing up in their genetic families. Intercultural adoption adds another layer of identity issues for the family as well as the child. Opponents of interracial adoption feel that it impacts ...