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...study found, regardless of the race of their adoptive parents, black adopted children were no different from other kids in levels of self-esteem. But, the authors write, "black children had a greater sense of racial pride when their parents acknowledged racial identity, moved to integrated neighborhoods, and provided African American role models. Black children whose white parents minimized the importance of racial identity were reluctant to identify themselves racially." But is it necessarily catastrophic to eschew a strong racial identity? Not everybody thinks so. "All adopted children face challenges with being adopted," says R. Richard Banks, a Stanford...
...drought-stricken Karamoja region of Uganda - an east African country slightly smaller than Oregon, just west of Kenya - St. Kizito is where malnourished children are brought to get better. Locals say this hospital in the town of Matany is the only good one for perhaps 100 miles: no doubt that's one reason why the therapeutic feeding center, as the malnutrition program is called, houses 33 young patients in its one room with eight cots. Inside, a handful of mothers sit and feed the children who are too weak to play, or even...
Many of these guidelines date from the early '70s, when the National Association of Black Social Workers condemned interracial adoption, eventually branding such placements "cultural genocide." Last year the NABSW softened its stance to make transracial adoption a third option behind preservation of biological African-American families and placement of black children in black homes. But this racial bias has long been opposed by many adoption advocates, who have recently found unlikely allies among conservative Republicans averse to any form of racial preference and eager to move children off government support...
...Mullen of Lexington, Texas, who filed suit in April to adopt two black brothers, ages 2 and 6, whom they have raised since infancy. Though Texas law bars race from being the determining factor in adoption, the Mullens charge that caseworkers delayed the adoption in order to seek an African-American home. Their case is bolstered by a separate class action against the state of Texas, filed jointly by lawyers at the conservative Institute for Justice in Washington and three liberal Harvard law professors--Elizabeth Bartholet, Randall Kennedy and Laurence Tribe--that aims to have race-matching practices declared unconstitutional...
Harvard's Kennedy notes that there is no consensus among African-American parents on how to raise a child. "I'm sure there's a difference between the way Jesse Jackson raises his kids, Louis Farrakhan raises his kids and my parents raised me," he says. Ruth-Arlene Howe, a law professor at Boston College, counters that efforts to ensure race-blind adoptions are "a major, major assault on black families...