5 Tips to Help Overcome the Issues of Transracial Adoptions

If you are currently experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, you may be unsure of your options. Though it can be difficult, adoption is always a great option. You are giving your child the opportunity to lead a better life and allowing adoptive parents to start or expand their own family. Adoption comes with its own unique challenges, and transracial adoption is no exception. Adoption Choices of Missouri is here to help you navigate these obstacles. Transracial adoptions, sometimes called multiracial or interracial adoption is the adoption of a child from a different race, ethnicity, or culture than your own. There are all types of transracial adoptions they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. 

Tips and Tricks to Navigate a Transracial Adoption

At Adoption Choices of Missouri, we guide all of our birth mothers through the nuances of adoption, and transracial adoption is no different. We have tips and tricks to help you make your transracial adoption easier for everyone involved. 

• Embrace diversity: one of the best things you can do in a transracial adoption is embraced diversity. You can do this by living in a diverse neighborhood, enrolling your child in a diverse school, or attending a diverse church. It is also important that you ensure your child plays with diverse toys, reads diverse books, and watches diverse television shows. This allows your child to see people who look like them and embrace the differences of others. 
• Challenge racism: racism is still prevalent in today’s society, but you cannot ignore the issue; it must be confronted. You can do this by challenging racism when you see it. Challenging racism will help dismantle racism, and this will also teach your child to challenge racism. Your child will learn to be assertive when they see or experience racism while simultaneously learning to be a leader. 
• Ask questions: we don’t know what we don’t know, so ask any and every question you can think of. You can try befriending people who share your child’s heritage or immersing yourself in your child’s culture. There is nothing wrong with a lack of knowledge as long as you seek to become informed. 
• Open adoption: open adoption is one of the best ways to overcome some of the difficulties of transracial adoption. Your child will have the opportunity to learn about their culture from their birth mother. Your child can learn about your family’s traditions and heritage directly from the source. 
• Love: love is the most important part of any adoption. You chose adoption for your baby because you love them and want to give them a chance at a better life. Your child will be able to experience unconditional love from their adoptive parents. Love is at the core of adoption. 

Though transracial adoptions can be difficult, they are not much different from other adoptions: you have a birth mother making a huge sacrifice and a family seeking to add another person to their family. Transracial adoption, like all adoptions, is beautiful despite its challenges. 

Contact Adoption Choices of Missouri Today!

Adoption Choices of Missouri is your number one local adoption agency. We have offices all over the state with staff ready and waiting to assist you. We help our birth mothers navigate the entire adoption process from start to finish. Call or text Adoption Choices of Missouri today if you have any questions or are ready to begin your adoption journey. You’ll be glad you did!

Adoption Choices of Missouri serves birth parents statewide and beyond, please call us or text us to learn more! Call us toll-free at 877-903-4488 or, in Missouri call or text us at 816-527-9800

Meet the Author: Rayna Batiste is an alumna of the University of West Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. Having graduated with honors, she hopes to attend graduate school at New York University, majoring in Journalism. Rayna is also a United States Air Force veteran who enjoys watching documentaries about pretty much any subject, learning, and spending quality time with her family and friends. She is also a fitness enthusiast and an avid Peloton user.
Her hobbies include brunch (yes, brunch is a hobby), fashion, makeup, and of course, reading and writing. Rayna has a real passion for the written word and correct grammar and syntax. She enjoys manipulating sentence structure and experimenting with punctuation in her writing. She’s what you would call a “werd nerd.” She was also recently featured at the Pensacola Museum of Art for her work, entitled Triangular Geometry.