Biracial is one parent is of another race, but at least one parent is of the same race as the child; for example, there is one Black and one White parent and the child is Black. Transracial adoption neither of the adoptive parent is of the same race of the adopted child; for example, both parents are White and the child they are adopting is Black. Biracial and transracial are the most controversial, there are arguments for and against these types of adoptions.
The adoption of children of different races has been a topic of controversy for many years. In fact, in 1972 the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) came out with a very stern position opposing transracial adoption completely, bringing up worries that such adoptions compromised the child's racial and cultural identity, even going as far as calling transracial adoption genocide (Lee). Although that was years ago, many critics still feel virtually the same way. Those who oppose transracial adoption today, feel that children who are adopted into all-White families cannot develop a strong ethnic or cultural identity because they are often raised in an environment where they are seen as different. Collen Butler-Sweet, author of ""A Healthy Black Identity' Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization ", she says "Such an arrangement is considered both damaging and dangerous to a child's development and contributes to the fear the black children who grow up in white homes will develop "white psyches " "(195). .
On the contrary, Chuck Johnson, who is the chief executive of the National Council for Adoption, says "[I]t may be ideal and less complicated to match children available for adoption with same-race, same-culture families, but timeliness is of the utmost importance, it's better to find permanency and a loving home " (Ravitz). According to author Andrew Morris who wrote the article "Transracial Adoption: The Pros and Cons and the Parents' Perspective ", he says "[O]n average, Black children remain in foster care and other institutional homes two to three years longer than white children because a disproportionately large number of Black children are in need of adoption.
