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This is a good time to remind people that there's a huge backlog of stable, middle-class Americans desperate to adopt. This persists primarily because of huge r

This is a good time to remind people that there's a huge backlog of stable, middle-class Americans desperate to adopt. This persists primarily because of huge regulatory and legal burdens placed on the adoption process. The most despicable of which is a constellation of bigoted state-by-state policies on "racial matching". The end result is that black foster kids on average spend twice as long in the system as their white counterparts.[1] [1] https://ij.org/press-release/institute-for-justice-challenges-barriers-to-interracial-adoption/ https://ij.org/press-release/institute-for-justice-challenge...

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rstupek 6y ago
Isn't having white couples adopt black foster kids something the black community has pushed back on?
- haram_masala 6y ago
  It's something that Ibram Kendi has pushed back on: https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsored-by-twitter-ceo-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-colonialism-for-adopting-from-haiti/ https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsore.... But he does not represent the Black community, despite the amount of media he gets.
frankydp 6y ago
Georgia was sued a decade ago and lost for letting children languish in care, because of racial matching "rules" in certain counties. This resulted in a hugely disproportionate number of specifically african american children never finding adoptive homes due to a lack of racial matched adoptive resources. There are now reporting requirements for this specific issue in the egregious counties Fulton and Dekalb.
- soccerz 6y ago
  We had a sibling pair for a year and were on the verge of adopting them. DFCS was more than a year late than was legally required to file TPR and at the last minute moved them to yet another home, this time based on skin color. These kids are pawns of a harmful ideology.
Grustaf 6y ago
I think most people prefer to adopt very young children, without issues, rather than older ones that come from problem homes. The latter will be much harder to manage. Also, racial matching is not just about parents wanting white kids because of "racism", it's usually easier for the children to fit in and feel integrated into their new environment if they look more or less similar to their family.

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rstupek 6y ago

Isn't having white couples adopt black foster kids something the black community has pushed back on?

haram_masala 6y ago
It's something that Ibram Kendi has pushed back on: https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsored-by-twitter-ceo-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-colonialism-for-adopting-from-haiti/ https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsore.... But he does not represent the Black community, despite the amount of media he gets.

frankydp 6y ago

Georgia was sued a decade ago and lost for letting children languish in care, because of racial matching "rules" in certain counties. This resulted in a hugely disproportionate number of specifically african american children never finding adoptive homes due to a lack of racial matched adoptive resources. There are now reporting requirements for this specific issue in the egregious counties Fulton and Dekalb.

soccerz 6y ago
We had a sibling pair for a year and were on the verge of adopting them. DFCS was more than a year late than was legally required to file TPR and at the last minute moved them to yet another home, this time based on skin color. These kids are pawns of a harmful ideology.

Grustaf 6y ago

I think most people prefer to adopt very young children, without issues, rather than older ones that come from problem homes. The latter will be much harder to manage. Also, racial matching is not just about parents wanting white kids because of "racism", it's usually easier for the children to fit in and feel integrated into their new environment if they look more or less similar to their family.