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handle is hein.amenin/aeiadfe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points iransracial adokn, ticulariy of blackchlden by hite parents, has aroused contro- vrsy for more than 50 year, especially fter being f mtus v denounced by the Natiorn Association or Elack Soca 'Workers n 1 97:. But te empirical evdence on transracia adopmion suggests strongy that black children adop-ed int4 white familes suffer no more developmental or adjustment probiems than black adopm-es in b Ack families. M Given t O onifian shortage of black families available to adopt black children from foster car-, ppot½ or to transracial adoption does not serve those who need a perma- nn faniy. Abby .3hnson, a noted antiabortion activist who spoke at the Republican National Convention, once posted a YouTube video (subsequently remnoved) say- mig bat p'lice would be well-advised to be wary of her adopted brown son, as she put it, as he is more belvto comnit a violent c-rime tian 'certwo white sons are. Racial profiling, she said, was just statistics 'Is gen-ieated immediate otirag, which surprised adoption scholars SunAh M Lay-x bourn and. Carla Goar, vio were both transracilly adopted as hldren. Did [those outraged' ti nk that having a child of color meant that wh'ite par- ents would commit to anti racist perspectives and actnvnty> This raises an im portarnt question, especially in light of recent protests over systemic racism in Anterican society: Whya oap we expect of white parents who, like the authors of this report, adopted black children? Does trans racial adoption wora in the child's best interests? This question has been a controversial subject for at least so years. In this report, we examine the evidence regard- ing the effect on black and biracial children of being adopted into white fanilies Uinsurprisingly, given America'` history of race relations, whites adopting hlack children was quite rare, and in some states evenilea, before the mid-zoth century. Beginning in the mid-i95os, however, several initiatives broke the implicit coior line in both international and donesstic adop- tion. Some national associations began promoting transracial adoption, A program called Parents to Adopt Minority Youngsters vsas iitiated by the Children's Home Society of vinnoesota, and the Boys and Crls Aid Society of Oregon ran a project with dhe (tow cringewi rthy) name Operation Brown Baby.- Other kinds of trnsracial adoption were also on the rise, such as te wilespread adop- tion of Korean War orphans that began in 1ac9 by Bertha and Harry Hi lt from C) regon, The National Children's Bureau estimated that by i972., 1c,,000 American families had adopted

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