Transracial Adoption Case Study

In the early 1960’s Transracial adoption (TRA) placed approximately 10,000 black children in white homes. This situation of adopting children from different ethnicities from their adoptive parents has led a huge controversy in the United States. Later in 1972 the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) took an explicit position in opposition white families to adopted any black children because it is affecting the children's healthy development (Carter-Black, 5). The environment where the children are raised will have impact on their lives in how they confront social problems. Transracial adoption frequently affects the psychological development identity of the children. The problems that affect the development of the TRA teenegers are ethnicity identity confusion, socio-cultural challenge, and unhealthy emotional development beyond childhood.
Ethnicity identity confusion is what a child determines they are while living or having a family with diversity of race members. Colleen Butler Sweet, suggests that white parents adopting black children do not have the skills to help them in have a clear ethnic identity. The Ethnicity identity of TRA children is based on their adoptive parents but is not the real true of who their are because the children ethnic background cannot be teach from …show more content…
So their children can work in white collar jobs and have a middle-class lifestyle. Also Lareau comments that working class emphasize the importance of directives and obedience that are necessary for blue collar jobs and working class lifestyle. In other words the importance of the parents showing the fundamental structure of allowing the children to find themselves is essential for their future development and

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