Transracial Adoption

This adoption refers to children that are placed with families of another race or ethnicity. These placements can be both domestic and international in scope. You may hear this discussed as a separate type of adoption as it is a unique form. There may be quite a group of unique cultural issues that new adoptive families face in this type of adoption.

With all of this availability of infants and in Russia’s case many Caucasian, demand is high. But let’s not forget the goals! What are the goals of the international programs? The goals are to find homes… get children out of institutions… and stop costing the governments in these countries money and bad public relations they cannot afford.

Not to say that International adoption is a free for all or children are moved out wholesale. Quite the contrary. U.S. Adoptive parents spent close to $200 MILLION in 2001 for international adoption services(Testimony of Cindy Friedmutter, Esq. Executive Director, Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute, House Committee on International Relations 5/22/02).This is a business. It is a way to provide for children while at the same time providing hard cash not only for governments but business and individuals. I will go into some financial reasoning later, but in any situation involving adoption, don’t lose sight of the money.