International adoption, an integral part of transracial adoption creates this huge gap between

the parents and the child's culture. The race factor and differences in biological culture might
be the biggest hindrance. The humongous obstacle being the culture shock, which needs to be
taken off at a tender age. Thus, countries try to promote domestic adoption of these children
in adoption homes and keep these adoptees before they are finally been adopted
internationally later. The cultural gap is cured through a constant acquaintance of parents and
the child before been handed over so that the parents and the child create a healthy bonding
through mutual understanding. 
In the United States in 2010, it was pointed out that black children had a lesser adoption rate
than white children, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and
similarly in the UK, with the authoritarian guidelines on adoption making it difficult to adopt
between races. But the policy is changing after Michael Gove, the UK's Education Secretary
said it was "outrageous" to deny a child the chance of adoption because "of a misguided
belief that race is more important than any other factor.", is surely a game-changer after the
American 1994 Multi-Ethnic Placement Act which affirmed “the prohibition against delaying
or denying the placement of a child for adoption or foster care based on race, color or
national origin of the foster or adoptive parents or of the child involved." as well as the
Interethnic Adoption Provisions, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. The
acceptability of African American children by white parents is a persistent problem of ethnic
adoption, especially due to the shortage of minority facilities. The key to being a better
adoptive parent is to understand and sympathize with the nurturance of the baby, as children
of minority ethnicity or mixed-race origins often fall prey to racial criticism from their
surroundings. The parent should openly help the children deal with criticism and educate
themselves about the righteous beliefs surrounding the adoptees’ race and ethnicity and most
essentially allow them to grow up in a surrounding of mixed races which naturally inculcates
values of cross-cultural acceptance in them invariably helping to meddle with other cultures
inclusive development. Transracial adoption has often been subjected to criticism of creating
a conflicting and estranged effect on a child’s view of self-identity.