No Equity In Adoption for Black Children

This article is an interview with “Zena F. Oglesby Jr., MSW, director of the Institute for Black Parenting (IBP)”. It describes racism and challenges of recruiting adoptive parents for black children in foster care as well as training future social workers.

Two insightful quotes that apply to all forms of adoption and adoptive parents:

““The thing that is scary to me is that children aren’t perfect,” he said. “People who are willing to pay high fees for healthy kids don’t always get perfect children. If you pay $50,000, it doesn’t mean that child is going to be healthy, gorgeous and smart.”

and

““The younger generation is showing no interest in the politics, the debate or even checkmating the system. There is a vacuum of apathy and ignorance out there that quite frankly is frightening.”
http://www.blackvoicenews.com/news/45680-no-equity-in-adoption-for-black-children.html
[BlackVoiceNews.com 2/2/11 by Chris Levister]

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