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The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a non-profit that studies and provides education on adoption, examined national statistics and studies on transracial adoptions - those in which adoptive parents and adopted children are of different races - in the U.S. over the past two decades. In its report, "Finding Families for...
The problem may be traced, at least in part, to the 1996 Multiethnic Placement Act-Interethnic Adoption Provision (MEPA-IEP), which Congress passed in response to headlines about white parents who wanted to adopt black children but were thwarted by race-matching policies. The legislation, which prohibited any adoption agency...
Still, says Adam Pertman, executive director of the Donaldson Institute, we're doing a disservice to children if we try to ignore those racially based anxieties. "We just want to assess whether people are ready to parent a child who's going to face racism," he says. "Helping kids feel...
Antidepressants are the most frequently prescribed class of drugs in the U.S., making up about 5% of all prescription medication recorded in outpatient files, according to 2005 figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But if the demand for antidepressants is so high and the pills are...
Because there is little federal funding available for stem cell research, Harvard’s own $100 million institute was funded largely with private funds.