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Hi, I’m writing on adoption issues and have two items that will be published in this fall: Mary Ann Davis Children for Families or Families for Children: The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S. 2011. Springer. and Mary Ann Davis. “Intercountry Adoption Flows from Africa to the U.S.: A Fifth Wave of Intercountry Adoptions,” accepted for publication in International Migration Review, forthcoming December 2011. There are numerous race issue issues, including a documentation system that uses a generic “black” for multiracial children; increased likelihood of child abuse complaints and removals, a family system that favors kinship care without legal adoptions, and a longstanding scale of adoptability (of the middle class, infertile) that favors the young, ethnic European, with no siblings and no diagnosed conditions. (There is also the question of whether a label or diagnosis impedes the adoption process.) Also the issue of open versus closed adoptions. The U.S. actually exports black adoptees as intercountry adoptees to other countries , while we adopt from African countries, notably Ethiopia. You might want to look at Quiroz, P. A. 2007a. Adoption in a Color-Blind Society. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Her research validates the “valuation of children by race”. Data from. Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Family Life Development Center Cornell University: Ithaca, New York. Provide the numbers so if you consider that 12 percent of the population is “black” then why are almost 3 times as many children available for adoption black?: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/tar/report13.htm Adoption resource exchanges also provide the profiles of the children available: See which children were added or updated in the the Texas Adoption Resource Exchange from June 24 - July 8, 2011. So you see the impact of being “hard to place” in adoption. Best wishes on studying a complex subject, Mary Ann Davis, Ph.D. From: bounce-37778070-6841094@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bounce-37778070-6841094@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lois Thiessen Love doubt a direct answer - but worth checking out - On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Lovie J Jackson <LJJ10@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Greetings, I am wondering if anyone knows of studies/data showing that
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