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...undertakes to empathize with people who attended them. Their motivation, Twain argued, is not inhuman viciousness but "man's commonest weakness, his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side. Its other name is Moral Cowardice, and is the commanding feature of the make...
...reflected in the national statistics. Since MEPA-IEP was passed in the mid-1990s, the proportion of transracial adoptions has risen only modestly - from 17.2% in 1996 to 20.1% in 2003. Meanwhile, the government has not compelled agencies to recruit foster and adoptive parents who reflect the ethnic make-up of children in the system, even though the law says they must, so racial disparities have persisted within the family services system. Black children are adopted less frequently and more slowly than kids of any other race. Fifteen percent of U.S. children are black, but they account for nearly...
...going to face racism," he says. "Helping kids feel comfortable in their own skin leads to better outcomes." That can certainly be accomplished by finding the best parents for the children who need them regardless of race, but also by supporting adoptive families with consideration for their ethnic make-up. Says Pertman: "Nobody's saying black kids shouldn't have white parents, but does anybody really think we live in a fully color-blind society? It's a nice ideal but it's not reality...
Lori M. Adelman ’08 looks anything but ready when she answers the door in her pink bathrobe. But the relative lack of dress belies her actual state of preparedness. Party make-up on and party-state in mind, Adelmen is only one quick outfit change away from the start of her night. The rap music she blares in the background is routinely punctuated by knocks on the door, and the common room gradually fills with more and more of Adelman’s friends. Teetering in a pair of black wedge shoes, Adelman checks the time...
...Tomorrow, the Crimson travels to Ithaca, N.Y. for a two-game set with Cornell in a make-up of a twinbill originally scheduled for March 29 that was snowed...