TerryJ2
Well-Known Member
Arrrgh! I cannot believe this. (see link below) If this goes back to the way it was, I will personally become involved in politics.
I SO much disagree with-the National Association of Black Social Workers. They are in the news for their outrageous statements every few mo's. They are to interracial and transracial adoption what PETA is to animals--they shoot themselves in the foot with-their outrageous antics, and undo all the previous good they may have done at any given time.
I also have never given $ to the Dave Thomas (aka Wendy's hamburgers founder) Adoption Foundation because they historically only supported closed adoption. Dave Thomas was the product of a closed adoption and therefore thought it was the only way adoptions should take place. My difficult child has never gotten away from the Wendy's counter without a lecture and reminder from me (it's amazing he still wants the food but when he's hungry, he's hungry and kids are passed masters at ignoring their parents' political tirades).
Sure, it's a great idea to make sure parents know what they're getting into when they cross racial lines through adoption. But no matter what changes are made in the law, this movement only assures that parents will have to jump through more hoops and have to do more posturing and that fewer children will be adopted.
This is one of the reasons we went through a private service and met the bmom in person. She agrees with-us wholeheartedly.
Our foster care system is already broken. I fail to see how this will help. These people are do-gooders whose end product will only create more problems.
Child rearing and adoption and education are all huge social experiements anyway --just look at how things have changed in the past 30 yrs, much less since our country was founded, and then consider that wealthy European children were raised by tutors and nannies and then returned home once they were "civilized."
Here is the jist of it, and here is the link: (I italicized the proposed change.)
"Recommendations for major changes in the much-debated policy were outlined in a report by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
"Color consciousness - not 'color blindness' - should help to shape policy development," the report said.
Groups endorsing its proposals included the North American Council on Adoptable Children, the Child Welfare League of America, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the National Association of Black Social Workers.
At issue is the 1994 Multi-Ethnic Placement Act - and revisions made to it in 1996 - governing the adoption of children from foster care.
One part of the law directs state agencies to recruit more adoptive parents of the same race as the children. The new report says this provision hasn't been adequately enforced and calls for better funded efforts to recruit minority parents.
The more contentious part of the legislation prohibits race from being taken into consideration in most decisions about adoption from foster care. For example, white parents seeking to adopt a black child cannot be required to undergo race-oriented training that differs in any way from training that all prospective adoptive parents receive.
A key recommendation in the new report calls for amending the law so race could be considered as a factor in selecting parents for children from foster care. The change also would allow race-oriented pre-adoption training.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/changes-sought-in-transracial-adoptions/20080527141109990001
I SO much disagree with-the National Association of Black Social Workers. They are in the news for their outrageous statements every few mo's. They are to interracial and transracial adoption what PETA is to animals--they shoot themselves in the foot with-their outrageous antics, and undo all the previous good they may have done at any given time.
I also have never given $ to the Dave Thomas (aka Wendy's hamburgers founder) Adoption Foundation because they historically only supported closed adoption. Dave Thomas was the product of a closed adoption and therefore thought it was the only way adoptions should take place. My difficult child has never gotten away from the Wendy's counter without a lecture and reminder from me (it's amazing he still wants the food but when he's hungry, he's hungry and kids are passed masters at ignoring their parents' political tirades).
Sure, it's a great idea to make sure parents know what they're getting into when they cross racial lines through adoption. But no matter what changes are made in the law, this movement only assures that parents will have to jump through more hoops and have to do more posturing and that fewer children will be adopted.
This is one of the reasons we went through a private service and met the bmom in person. She agrees with-us wholeheartedly.
Our foster care system is already broken. I fail to see how this will help. These people are do-gooders whose end product will only create more problems.
Child rearing and adoption and education are all huge social experiements anyway --just look at how things have changed in the past 30 yrs, much less since our country was founded, and then consider that wealthy European children were raised by tutors and nannies and then returned home once they were "civilized."
Here is the jist of it, and here is the link: (I italicized the proposed change.)
"Recommendations for major changes in the much-debated policy were outlined in a report by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
"Color consciousness - not 'color blindness' - should help to shape policy development," the report said.
Groups endorsing its proposals included the North American Council on Adoptable Children, the Child Welfare League of America, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the National Association of Black Social Workers.
At issue is the 1994 Multi-Ethnic Placement Act - and revisions made to it in 1996 - governing the adoption of children from foster care.
One part of the law directs state agencies to recruit more adoptive parents of the same race as the children. The new report says this provision hasn't been adequately enforced and calls for better funded efforts to recruit minority parents.
The more contentious part of the legislation prohibits race from being taken into consideration in most decisions about adoption from foster care. For example, white parents seeking to adopt a black child cannot be required to undergo race-oriented training that differs in any way from training that all prospective adoptive parents receive.
A key recommendation in the new report calls for amending the law so race could be considered as a factor in selecting parents for children from foster care. The change also would allow race-oriented pre-adoption training.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/changes-sought-in-transracial-adoptions/20080527141109990001