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...Milwaukee County Human Services Department asked the Coxes to adopt the girls, now 5 and 6, and the couple readily agreed. But on June 14, M.W. and T.W. were removed by court order to the home of an aunt. Since then the Coxes have been allowed to see the children only once, on July 28, when they all dined together at a rib joint under the strict supervision of a caseworker. "We raised these girls for five years," Beverly says indignantly, "and now I can't even take them to the bathroom...
...believe, is that the girls are black and the Coxes are white. "The issue is biology, not race," says Jeff Aikin of Human Services, which changed its position after the aunt demanded custody of the girls. But as Beverly remembers it, the aunt, who wants to care for the children without terminating her sister's parental rights, said, "I don't want the kids raised or adopted in a white home." The Coxes have appealed the removal order--and phoned Hillary Clinton's office seeking support. Two weeks ago, the First Lady ended her new syndicated newspaper column with...
...roughly 440,000 children who currently languish in America's foster-care system, 20,000 are available for adoption, most of them older children between the ages of 6 and 12. Among the adoptable children, 44% are white and 43% are black. But 67% of all families waiting to adopt are white, and many of them are eager to take a black child. The hurdles, however, are often formidable. Though only three states--Arkansas, California and Minnesota--have laws promoting race matching in adoptions, 40 others favor the practice...
...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...
...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. Argues Tribe: "Leaving African-American kids in foster care rather than allowing them to be adopted by loving parents inflicts very serious harm on children...