Multiethnic Adoptions

Question: Would you see how many pages this will be on word? Thanks, I just don't have microsoft word and want to see if i'm at one page yet or what. If it is times new roman, font size 12, how many pages/ inches down am i on the page: Adoption became a familiar process in the United States in the aftermath of World War II. During WWII and subsequent wars, many families were torn apart and a substantial number of children became orphans. With the advent of birth control and legalized abortion in the 1960's, fewer healthy white babies were available to be adopted, but the number of children of color as orphans remained analogous. According to the 2000 U.S. census, about seventeen percent of orphans were adopted by parents of a different race. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Family and Personal Relationships, Lesile Doty Hollingsworth presents a case against transracial adoptions which is contrasted with that of Ezra E. H. Griffith and Rachel L. Bergeron, who present a stronger case with their stance that accepts transracial adoption. When promoting same-race adoption in children of color, Hollingsworth begins by emphasizing the importance of ethnic heritage. In 1972, the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) concluded that "Black children belong physically and psychologically and culturally in black families where they can receive the total sense of themselves and develop a sound projection of their future." NABSW's argument continues to suggest that only black parents can provide the emotional support and sensitivity that is required in a racist society. Some states reacted to NABSW's resolution by initiating policies to restrain the practice of transracial adoption and to encourage same-race adoption. Opposition to this idea led to the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994, which prohibited denying an adoptive parent based solely on the grounds of race or ethnicity. Hollingsworth acknowledges that a lack of adoptive parents of color lessens the chance of same-race adoption of children of color but suggests that aggrandizing the number of available adoptive parents of color will also increase the likelihood of same-race adoptions. In order for more families of color to adopt, evidence suggests that the policies of recruitment and eligibility must be more flexible to reflect the families' cultures and lifestyles. In one instance, same-race adoptions were encouraged and the number of children adopted by parents of the same race increased from 39 to 70 out of 100. Eliminating inequalities in adoption agencies' services is an essential issue to Hollingsworth. Evidence shows that African American children were more often neglected by workers than white or Hispanic children. In another study, African American families that had adopted a child were contacted by agents as a follow-up on average only 2.9 times compared to 7.2 times of white families. The inequality in services negatively affects the preservation of the family and the provision of resources and services to those children who may be abused or neglected. Most statistics fail to distinguish kinship and non-kinship foster placements, which Hollingsworth considers to be misleading to her argument. Kinship foster placements are especially common to children of color. Even though the kinship foster arrangements are frequently permanent, they rarely develop into formal adoptions. The main reason for the reluctance of African Americans to formally adopt their foster children revolves on their cultural definition of a family and their attitudes towards familial relationships. One study found that seventy percent of kinship foster parents would not formally adopt because they already felt like the child was a part of the family while the remaining thirty percent feared that adoption would cause dissension in their relationship with the biological parents. Since the decrease in adoption odds is linked to placement in relative foster care, these cases are regarded as permanency failures. Hollingsworth suggests more effort should be applied to eliminating the reasons that children of color are displaced from their families. A major cause of displacement is poverty, which plagues children of color disproportionately and results in out-of-home arrangements. Children living in poverty are at risk of permanently losing their families only because of their economic disadvantage. Instead of charging towards transracial adoption, policies should first look to correct resource deficiencies that are causing children of color to be displaced from their family.

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Question: Would you proofread my paragraph? When promoting same-race adoption in children of color, Hollingsworth begins by emphasizing the importance of ethnic heritage. In 1972, the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) concluded that "Black children belong physically and psychologically and culturally in black families where they can receive the total sense of themselves and develop a sound projection of their future." NABSW's argument continues to suggest that only black parents can provide the emotional support and sensitivity that is required in a racist society. Some states reacted to NABSW's resolution by initiating policies to restrain the practice of transracial adoption and to encourage same-race adoption. Opposition to this idea led to the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994, which prohibited denying an adoptive parent based solely on the grounds of race or ethnicity.

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