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Transracial Adoption
Opinion: Should race be a factor in adoption?
From CNN: So, with it becoming ‘easier’ to adopt a child from a different race — does this make it right? It is a controversial question that I’m not going to seek to answer within the short confines of this article. However, my own experiences of living with a white British family have been positive [...]
Please Support YOU FOLLOW: A Search for One’s Past
YOU FOLLOW: A Search for One’s Past is a documentary film project profiling Nisha Grayson who traveled to Goa, India in 2009 with a group of friends to find her birth mother. Nisha plans to travel back to Goa in January to complete her journey and finish the film. The project’s fundraising goal to complete [...]
Adoption increasingly crosses racial, ethnic lines
From USA Today: With 130,000 children adopted each year in the USA, researchers find growing numbers involve kids whose race is different from their parents’. The latest data show that about 40% of adoptions in America involve such families. Among children from other countries adopted by American parents, 84% are trans-racial or trans-ethnic, says Adam [...]
Britain’s adoption laws to be liberalized
From UPI: Great Britain’s education secretary [Michael Gove], who was an adopted child, spoke out in favor of Parliament’s intentions to liberalize the country’s adoption procedures… Under current law, hundreds of children without parents are prevented from finding loving homes, The Sun said. Under the proposed changes, would-be adoptive parents over the age of 45 [...]
Transracial Adoption: Is Love Enough?
From The Huffington Post: The rights and wrongs of transracial adoption are in the news in the U.K. again, as the coalition government has proudly pronounced that race should not be a bar in adoption and that too many dual-heritage children are “languishing” in the British care system. The new government is giving British social [...]
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