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Transracial Adoption (TRA): Old Prejudices and Discrimination Float Under a New Halo
Get PDFThe primary aim of this article is to place the late twentieth century Transracial Adoption (TRA) of African-American children accurately within the context of the child welfare system milieu out of which it emerged. It also endeavors to provide thoughtful scholars and child advocates a new lens with which to assess the past purpose, function, and efficacy of TRA. The author hopes that through these considerations more careful regulation and monitoring of future TRA placements will emerge, which will both protect the interests of the African-American adoptee and respect the African-American community
A Dream Deferred
No full textPresentation at the MLK Annual Unity Breakfast, Boston College, January 19, 2005
Review of Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting by Elizabeth Bartholet
No full textAlso appears in Massachusetts Family Law Journal 11 (September 1993): 37-40
A Closed Mind is a Wonderful Thing to Lose
No full textPreface to Cardozo Women\u27s Law Journal Volume 9 Issue 2: To Do Feminist Legal Theory Symposium 200
A Wake-Up Call for American Society or Have The Chickens Just Come Home to Roost? : Essay Review of Charles Patrick Ewing\u27s When Children Kill: The Dynamics of Juvenile Homicide
Get PDFAdoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?
No full textAfter enactment of the first modern state adoption statute in 1851, adoption in the United States evolved as both a state judicial process and a specialized child welfare service to promote the best interest of children in need of permanent homes. This essay reviews developments during the last quarter of the century that force us to ask whether U.S. adoption is meeting the needs of children, its original child welfare intent, or serving the interests of adults
A Review of Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting by Elizabeth Bartholet
Get PDFFamily law practitioners and scholars, especially those involved with or responsible for servicing the rapidly increasing numbers of children entering the foster care system, should take the time to read this serious book by Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet. Family Bonds is an unusual interweaving of autobiographical storytelling with a carefully researched, powerfully crafted indictment of American societal views about parenting, adoption laws and practices
Redefining the Transracial Adoption Controversy
Get PDFI. Introduction Transracial adoption is a sensitive topic, evoking acrimonious debate between those who view transracial placements as positive for both the children and society as a whole and those who view them as injurious to Black children and Black communities. 1 Efforts to declare race-matching preference policies or statutory schemes unconstitutional are intensifying. 2 Some legal writers assert that such a prohibition is needed in order to avoid or minimize harm to Black 3 youngsters in the foster care system. 4 In a re cent law review article analyzing the same-race statutory preference schemes of three states, the commentator concluded that a child affected by the question of trans-racial adoption is potentially trapped in the middle of dangerous political and legal crossroads. 5 Race and color continue to be unresolved issues in our society--inextricably tied and merged with issues of power, status, and inequality--that mock American claims of being a democratic land of equal opportunity. 6 Race and color profoundly influence the lives of all within our society, governing the choices one makes and the choices one believes she has. 7 Issues of race and poverty in American society directly contribute to the disproportionate numbers 8 of Black children remaining in the foster care sys tem for longer periods of time than other children, 9 due to a shortage of approved Black adoptive homes. 10 I believe that race cannot be ignored. 11 The key to successful living as a minority person in a discriminating, denigrating society is to ..
Review of Child Abuse and Neglect: Legislation, Reporting, and Prevention by Joseph J. Costa and Gordon K. Nelson and Child Maltreatment in the United States: A Challenge to Social Institutions by Saad J. Nagi
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