Children that are adopted across racial and cultural lines, generally do just as well as adoption by same race parents. There are some additional challenges they face though. Having to deal with the issue of racism in our society and most societies. Parents teaching their children how to deal with it. Sometimes children, because of the physical differences that are obvious, feel different. Sometimes they feel that they don't fit into the family as they would like to. Sometimes they feel marginalized by their peers in the community who aren't adopted. Wondering if they are accepted, perhaps, as an African American individual or a Hispanic individual. These are challenges that transracial adoptees face, but they are challenges that they are quite successful with as long as parents are involved with appropriate cultural and racial socialization.