Across the country, the term “transracial adoption” usually refers to the placement of children of a different color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents. The number of Caucasian children in the United States has decreased in recent years, and there are some adoption agencies that have Caucasian children but do not accept singles or applicants over the age of 40 (transracial and transcultural adoption). There are some prospective adoptive parents who feel very connected to a specific cultural race because of their ancestry or through personal experience from their past, such as travel or military service. Others simply enjoy helping children in need, no matter where they come from. Adoption experts have a slightly different opinion on these types of adoptions. There is strong evidence that children can benefit and thrive in a transracial adoption situation. Some argue that children up for adoption should always be placed with a family with at least one parent of the same race or culture as the child, so that the child can develop a strong racial or cultural identity. There are other adoption experts who say that race should not be taken into consideration at all when selecting a family for a child (transracial and transcultural adoption). For them, all that matters is a loving family that can meet the needs of a specific child. It is very important to be prepared for transracial adoptions because it will introduce you to all kinds of aspects of adoptive parenting and help you learn about adoption issues. Transracial adoption is the legal adoption of children of one racial or ethnic group by a family that is of a different racial or ethnic group by a family that is of a different race......half of paper ...... at Adoptions." Adoption History: Transracial Adoptions. Department of History, University of Oregon, February 24, 2012. Web. April 9, 2014. Hollingsworth, Leslie D. "Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families, and the Adoption Controversy transracial", NP, September 1999. Web, 8 April 2014 Matter?" The Donaldson Adoption Institute. The New York Times, February 2, 2014. Web. April 7, 2014."The Parenting Dilemmas Of Transracial Adoption." NPR. NPR, May 11, 2011. Web. April 8, 2014. Staff, NPR. “Growing up 'white,' the transracial adoptee learned to be black.” NPR, January 26, 2014. Web. April 9, 2014. “Transracial and Transcultural Adoption.” Transracial and transcultural adoption and the web. April 08, 2014.Vonk, Elizabeth M. “Cultural Competence for Transracial Adoptive Parents.” Np, July 2001. Web. 08 April. 2014.