Transracial Adoption and the Federal Adoption Subsidy
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Cultural stereotypes die hard: the case of transracial adoption.
Transracial adoption (commonly understood as the adoption of black children by white families) has been the subject of a persistent debate among adoption specialists, legal advocates, mental health professionals, and even civil rights advocates in this country for a long time. This has been so despite cumulative research evidence indicating that transracial adoptees can thrive and develop into ...
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