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Home › Articles › Transracial Adoption › Transracial Adoption: Parent's Wish List and Child's Bill of Rights

Transracial Adoption: Parent's Wish List and Child's Bill of Rights

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  • Everybody could be viewed and valued for who they are on the inside, not just the outside.

    • A Transracially-Adopted Child's Bill of Rights

    Copyright 1996, Liza Steinberg Triggs, Pact Press.

    • Every child is entitled to love and full membership in her family.
    • Every child is entitled to have his culture embraced and values.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that this is a race-conscious society.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that she will experience life differently than they do.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who did not adopt him to "save" him or to improve the world.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that being in a family doesn't depend on "matching."
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that transracial adoption changes the family forever.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that if they are white, they benefit from racism.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who know that they can't transmit the child's birth culture if it is not their own.
    • Every child is entitled to have items in his own that are made for and by people of his culture.
    • Every child is entitled to make friends with people of her race or ethnicity.
    • Every child is entitled to daily opportunities to have positive experiences with his birth culture.
    • Every child is entitled to build racial pride within her own home, family, school and neighborhood.
    • Every child is entitled to have constant opportunities to connect with adults of the child's race.
    • Every child is entitled to learn survival, problem solving, and coping skills in a context of racial pride.
    • Every child is entitled to parents who accept, understand and empathize with her race and culture.
    • Every child is entitled to take pride in the development of a dual identity and a multcultural/multiracial perspective on life.
    • Every child is entitled to find his multiculturalism to be an asset and to conclude, "I've got the best of both worlds."
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