This section reports on demographic indicators related to race, ethnicity, and gender for adopted children and their parents. See Appendix Table 3 on page 59 for detailed data on each indicator. Figure 4. Percentage distribution of all children and adopted children by race and Hispanic origin. The race and ethnic distribution of adopted children is different from that of children in the general population.
The real experts on adoption are the people who have lived the experience—adoptees. What do young adult transracial adoptees say are the most important things white parents must teach their black kids to keep them safe in this racial world we live in? They gave the following five suggestions. How do you even say that?! How damaging is that to look into all 10 of those beautiful brown eyes and explain that one of them, because her skin is darker, will be treated this way?!
As society is becoming increasingly accepting of diversity within families, more parents are choosing to adopt children who may not share their racial or cultural background. These adoptions are called transracial or interracial adoption. Whether you are completing a domestic infant adoption , foster care adoption or international adoption , your adoption will be considered transracial if you and your child are not of the same race. In a perfect world, skin color would not affect the way you parent your child — but there are some important considerations to keep in mind when raising a child of a different race or ethnicity.
Interracial adoption also referred to as transracial adoption refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group. Interracial adoption is not inherently the same as transcultural or international adoption. However, in some circumstances an adoption may be interracial, international, and transcultural at the same time or some combination of two of those. The US Census found that "White and no other race , not Hispanic children made up the majority of all categories of children of householders under about 58 percent of adopted children, 64 percent of biological children" and "Of the 1. Between and , approximately 2, white children were adopted compared to only mixed-race children and only 90 black children in the UK.