Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adoption

Brief excerpt from what is widely considered the definitive video on transracial adoption. In the 20-minute training and recruitment video, adult adoptees delve into issues of race, culture, family and identity. A follow-up with two cast members made 10 years later is A CONVERSATION 10 YEARS LATER on the same DVD.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Transracial
• Interracial
• Adoption
• foster
• parents
• identity
• multicultural

[justmesqui]

huh is this for real ?

[PhotoSynthesisProd]

Yeah, Struggle for Identity is a DVD that is supposed to get you thinking and talking about issues related to transracial adoption. You can buy the DVD at photosynthesisproductions. com / store. cfm

[me0000ww]

excuse me i dont think you have the right to judge him. After all he was the one that was adopted. And plus transracial adopted kids probably have many insecurities and pressures than other kids. Basically you dont know how it is to be in his shoes so it is not wise to judge him.

[kalona422]

I adopted each one of my babies because I loved them more than life itself. Ones heritage is VERY important and I will never, ever dispute or downplay that. But I think it's more important to be loved and to be raised in a loving home. I feel badly for those who are unhappy that they were raised by someone of a different race other than their own. But I believe that there are more positive experiences than the negative that this film clip presents.

[summerfae]

I am not a parent, I have the ability to bare my own children when I am ready and I myself am not a racial minority. But I grew up in a liberal upper middle class community that during the 80's it was en vogue to adopt non-white babies. So many of my childhood friends grew up without ways of dealing with their feelings of being different, looking different and not feeling like they belonged. White parents dont understand that they are stripping these children of an identity when they adopt.

[geetarslim306]

Transracial adoption is WHITE people NOT WANTING TO GIVE UP WHITE PRIVILEGE, the truth is they want NO BLACK CULTURES AT ALL. They want many different looking white people. Just like Obama, black skin white brain. How many black people in this country already hate themselves, look at the women and the extremes they go through to not look Black, honestly we need to return to africa and segregate ourselves or die among our captors. THEY WANT THE PRIVILEGE and CONTROL, this is not about love!!

[Cjaz84]

With the way these kids are whining....it is just pissing me off. I am sorry someone adopted you. Go back into foster care. It would have been way better then. These people never had pets in the house. If an animal can love unconditionally and you give that back. Why are we making the race such a big deal? Get over it. I know people of mixed race parents that have gone through the same thing. Take the cards you are dealt and do your best

[LeeMIlby]

@loveallhappiness

Ugh... no. To someone who can't see past skin color, sure that's what they are saying. But there are many reasons why "bad neighborhoods" have a large minority population, and most of that is caused by poverty, not race.

[LeeMIlby]

@SumCommonSense

Agreed

[SumCommonSense]

@LeeMIlby Seems like there might be some issues here that are unrelated to race.

[LeeMIlby]

@GDGspire

Or not. The only issues i have are issues with people like you who assume that there is an inherent personal connection between an individual's race and the culture generally associated with that race.

[LeeMIlby]

@AdoptionTalk

Tons of parents also wrongly attribute typical teenage or childhood rebellion as being associated with being adopted. Puberty is strange and difficult for everybody, not just adopted children. Parents and children have disagreements all the time- it's common to most families, not just adoptive ones. Assuming that all rebellion stems from adoption will alienate the child.

[LeeMIlby]

@globehunter2

Having grown up in white suburbia and then moved to the most diverse city in the US, i actually find it harder (more annoying) to be surrounded by people who feel that culture is inherently connected to race. I get people telling me things like "you should go to Vietnam" as if doing that will satisfy some extra requirement for my personal existence. There are people who are genuinely dissapointed in me for not knowing my "true" language. But none of that stuff is important to me.