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From the article: "Practicing Christians are more than twice as likely to adopt than the general population, according to a 2013 study by the Barna Group. The

From the article: "Practicing Christians are more than twice as likely to adopt than the general population, according to a 2013 study by the Barna Group. The study also found most adoptive parents are White, while the children they adopt are overwhelmingly non-White." Goddamn those white christians and their... commitment to giving unwanted children a better life?

DoreenMichele 6y ago
There is a long history of Whites forcibly removing Native children from Native families. So it's nowhere near that simple. Though to be clear, I didn't post this article because of that aspect of it. I posted it because it has interesting content about the way the court system works: The 5th U.S. Court of Appeals last fall made the unusual decision to vacate one of its rulings that upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. The court announced it would review the case, Brakeen v. Bernhardt, “en banc,” a proceeding in which the full court rehears a case that was decided by a three-judge panel. An en banc review is a rare legal procedure reserved for maintaining uniformity of the court’s decisions or to show the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. If the full 5th Circuit Court strikes down the Indian Child Welfare Act, the case will undoubtedly head to the Supreme Court. I had never heard of this procedure and it really caught my attention as something interesting for people to know about and try to understand.
- gadders 6y ago
  I know the history about attempts to "westernise/civilise" native children. That happened in Australia as well with Aboriginal children and it was completely wrong. However, I don't think that's what the current adoption is, and it made me question the slant of the whole article. Also, people in the UK are slightly more familiar with courts sitting on "en banc", mainly due to Brexit fun and games... https://br.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-article50-factbox-idUSKBN13U21M https://br.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-article50-factb...
hnlurker 6y ago
Like so many hot topics today, it appears to be a pipeline problem. See USA's Department of Health and Human Services statistics (kind of old data is all I could find): https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/adoption-usa-chartbook-based-2007-national-survey-adoptive-parents/race-ethnicity-and-gender https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/adoption-usa-chartbook-based-200... Coupled with fertility rate data by USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which vary wildly by race: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf When the majority of kids up for adoption are non-white, and the majority of adult people are white, and the group that has the lowest fertility rate is also white, this seems like the perfectly expected and boring result... But of course, data is like wolfsbane to professional umbrage takers, and is easily ignored.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

There is a long history of Whites forcibly removing Native children from Native families. So it's nowhere near that simple. Though to be clear, I didn't post this article because of that aspect of it. I posted it because it has interesting content about the way the court system works: The 5th U.S. Court of Appeals last fall made the unusual decision to vacate one of its rulings that upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. The court announced it would review the case, Brakeen v. Bernhardt, “en banc,” a proceeding in which the full court rehears a case that was decided by a three-judge panel. An en banc review is a rare legal procedure reserved for maintaining uniformity of the court’s decisions or to show the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. If the full 5th Circuit Court strikes down the Indian Child Welfare Act, the case will undoubtedly head to the Supreme Court. I had never heard of this procedure and it really caught my attention as something interesting for people to know about and try to understand.

gadders 6y ago
I know the history about attempts to "westernise/civilise" native children. That happened in Australia as well with Aboriginal children and it was completely wrong. However, I don't think that's what the current adoption is, and it made me question the slant of the whole article. Also, people in the UK are slightly more familiar with courts sitting on "en banc", mainly due to Brexit fun and games... https://br.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-article50-factbox-idUSKBN13U21M https://br.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-article50-factb...

hnlurker 6y ago

Like so many hot topics today, it appears to be a pipeline problem. See USA's Department of Health and Human Services statistics (kind of old data is all I could find): https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/adoption-usa-chartbook-based-2007-national-survey-adoptive-parents/race-ethnicity-and-gender https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/adoption-usa-chartbook-based-200... Coupled with fertility rate data by USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which vary wildly by race: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf When the majority of kids up for adoption are non-white, and the majority of adult people are white, and the group that has the lowest fertility rate is also white, this seems like the perfectly expected and boring result... But of course, data is like wolfsbane to professional umbrage takers, and is easily ignored.