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According to ABCnews.com Trans racial adoption can provide a loving family and an identity struggle. Black children in Caucasian families try to find their place in society. African American adoptees explain their feelings on how they struggled in their Caucasian neighborhoods and schools. One speaker named Berstelan said in an interview, “We finally get this family, whomever they are, that we can call our own and so we adjust, we adapt, we learn to go along and get along and that's what I did. So in a way, home became a safe haven ... but it was a total disconnect from the world outside and so you end up, I ended up, internalizing the questions". Berstelan made a movie on his Tran racial life and the struggles he encountered. For 20 years Trans racial adoptions in the U.S didn’t end until the National Black Social Workers Association disapproved this and named it as a “cultural genocide”. Recently with the large earthquake in Haiti many Caucasian families are rushing to adopt Haitian orphan children. One family, the Erickson’s, has recently adopted two young Haitian children

. They said they would make an effort to teach their children their African roots, but they would not apologize for adopting black children. Another Caucasian man named Duke Scoppa said, “"If there are no black families that want to adopt them and we want to adopt them, and make them part of our lives and give them as much love as possible, then I don't know why that's so wrong,". For an adopted child to be an African American and to fit in an all White community with an all white family is a struggle, because there are not a lot of people who understand African American culture. Tran’s racial adoption does provide care and needs, but it causes problems and discomfort for the adoptees. Duke Scoppa makes a point that if no one is adopting the African American children, and they can provide the love and care then there is no issue, but to others adopting a child from a different race usually causes heartache. It is a whole different world where these children aren’t learning about their culture or history. This can cause social and mental confusion. This is evidence of why Tran’s racial adoption provides a loving family but an identity struggle.