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- From: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: secret life
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.174402.18859@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Jul20.155852.25974@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:44:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.155852.25974@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman) writes:
-
- > And the millions of people who are waiting to adopt babies are
- > waiting for the perfect, little, blond-haired, blue-eyed infants.
-
- > The 'millions' who are waiting to adopt are vastly outnumbered by
- > the number of children who need to be adopted.
-
- > If this is not true, then why are all of the perfect little white
- > infants adopted, but minority children, and babies with a medical
- > problem wait forever?
-
- Your statements are not correct. In a 1989 article in The Journal
- of Applied Behavioral Science ("An Organizational Dilemma: The
- Case of Transracial Adoptions"), it was estimated that half of
- the 36,000 children who are legally free for adoption are black.
- In 1984, it was estimated that of the two million white couples
- wishing to adopt children, approximately 68,000 would consider
- transracial adoption.
-
- In the same article, the authors detailed the practices of adoption
- and social service agencies which often discourage and prevent
- black prospective parents from adopting black children. One study
- found that of 800 black parents who applied for adoption, only
- 2 (1/4 of 1%) were approved. Blacks often face outright discrimination
- from adoption agencies when they attempt to adopt children.
-
- Many states have "race-matching" policies which require that black
- children be paired with black parents. These policies result in black
- children having to wait several years to become adopted if no black
- parents are immediately available. Some white foster parents have
- fought court battles to adopt the black children under their care.
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-
-