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Re: recruitment of minority foster/adoptive parents
<x-html><HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/4/2002 9:50:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, vbrooks@nh.ultranet.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Shirley Wilder is the name of the child who could not receive<BR>
appropriate services from CPS in NYC. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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For more information on the Shirley Wilder case, see "The Lost Children of Wilder" by Nina Bernstein. <BR>
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Raelene Freitag<BR>
Children's Research Center<BR>
916-419-6223</FONT></HTML>
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From: bill higgins <bill_higginsus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: recruitment of minority foster/adoptive parents
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Mr. Carter:
Perhaps you should reread your original post to the
group. It was YOU, and not I who stated that race
matching ameliorates trauma. I was merely questioning
whether there was evidence to support this claim.
Also, you mentioned that it "offends" you when people
state that race does not matter (in the context of
foster care placements I assume). Well, from the
articles you references, it appears that race really
doesn't have much of an effect on child outcomes. So,
why would that position be offensive?
Bill
--- vernon carter <vbrooks@nh.ultranet.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Higgins -
> As you say - Matching placements by race:
> "ameliorates trauma." Is probably
> a good dissertation topic. I don't think as you say
> that it has been
> established in the literature. That said you might
> find interesting a
> Connecticut study by Kluger, Fein and Maluccio
> (1988) that examined data
> collected on January 1, 1985 on "all 779 children in
> long term foster care
> in the state of Connecticut" that year (p.5). The
> citation is Kluger, M.
> Fein, E. & Maluccio, A. (1988). Children in
> Long-Term Foster Care - Neglect,
> Abuse, and Other Issues. US Department of Health and
> Humans Services (Grant
> # 90-CA-1283).
> The authors compared the placement of children in
> same race placements with
> transracial placements. They found many similarities
> between the foster
> parents. One difference between same race and the
> transracial foster
> placements was the attitude toward biological
> parents visiting with their
> children. Same race foster parents were split in
> there attitudes towards
> parental visitation: half encouraging and half
> discouraging. The transracial
> foster parents were more likely to discourage
> visitation or feel that it
> didn't matter. Kluger et al utilized discriminant
> analysis to examine their
> data. I think it has been established in the
> literature that parental
> visitation is generally very positive for foster
> children and that contact
> with one's parents would serve to ameliorate trauma.
>
> Finally, Mr. Higgins, Kluger et al. (1988) did find
> that "children in
> transracial placements appeared to be functioning as
> well as did children in
> same race homes did....Consistent with these
> findings, other researchers
> have found no differences in transracial and same
> race adopted children in
> their adjustment and sense of identity (Barth, et
> al., 1986; Feigelman &
> Silverman; Festinger, 1986)" (p. 71). There are
> others who would rebut this
> perspective. If you have an interest in such
> reading, please contact me.
>
> Vernon Brooks Carter, MSW
> New Hampshire Public Defender
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bill higgins <bill_higginsus@yahoo.com>
> To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: recruitment of minority foster/adoptive
> parents
>
>
> > Who said race doesn't matter? You are assuming
> that
> > matching placements by race "ameliorates trauma."
> Is
> > this actually true? I don't think this has been
> > established in the literature. Please correct me
> if
> > you think otherwise.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > --- vernon carter <vbrooks@nh.ultranet.com> wrote:
> > > It is fascinating to me, how we all bring our
> own
> > > understanding /perspective
> > > to a reading. Shirley Wilder is the name of the
> > > child who could not receive
> > > appropriate services from CPS in NYC. What I got
> > > from an article by Rosner &
> > > Markovitz, (1997) is that the NYC CPS system is
> and
> > > has been since its
> > > inception rife with racism. Any efforts that
> could
> > > ameliorate the trauma
> > > that children of color experience when they are
> > > removed from their homes
> > > would be a move in the right direction. This
> idea
> > > that race doesn't matter,
> > > frankly offends me.
> > >
> > > I know that R.P. Barth feels that efforts to
> find
> > > minority foster homes is
> > > not that answer for children of color who are
> > > lingering in foster care. But
> > > Jonson-Reid and Barth (2000) also feel that
> African
> > > American children are
> > > best left in foster care rather than return them
> to
> > > abusive and neglect
> > > situations. Unfortunately, it has to be pointed
> out
> > > that 68% of all children
> > > in care are there because of neglect and not
> abuse
> > > (Takayama & Wolfe, 1998).
> > >
> > > We are a society that is racially polarized.
> Some
> > > communities are as
> > > segregated today, as they were 80 years ago. In
> the
> > > cities of New York and
> > > Chicago, African American and Caucasians live in
> > > communities that are no
> > > more integrated today than they were in the
> 1920s -
> > > when African Americans
> > > began immigrating from the South in large
> numbers
> > > (Christian Science
> > > Monitor, March 14, 2001).
> > >
> > > Here are two articles you might find to be
> helpful.
> > >
> > > Fagan. P. (1995). Why serious welfare reform
> must
> > > include serious adoption
> > > reform. The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No.
> > > 1045. [Online]. Available:
> > >
> >
>
http://www.frc.org/heritage/library/categories/healthwel/bg1045.html
> > >
> > > Briggs, H. (October 1994) Promoting adoptions by
> > > foster parents through an
> > > inner-city organization. Research On Social Work
> > > Practice, 4, (4), 497-509.
> > >
> > > Vernon Brooks Carter, MSW (former CPSW worker)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <dw432@columbia.edu>
> > > To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> > > <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:36 PM
> > > Subject: Re: recruitment of minority
> foster/adoptive
> > > parents
> > >
> > >
> > > > Arnie--
> > > > Interestingly, this policy (of placing
> like
> > > kids with like
> > > > parents) is nothing new. I just finished a
> book
> > > "The Lost Children of
> > > > Wilder: the epic struggle to change foster
> care"
> > > written by NYT
> > > > writer Nina Bernstein that gives a moving
> synopsis
> > > of failed policies
> > > > in the US foster care system (especially here
> in
> > > NYC). Why not focus
> > > > more on quality control of caring, nurturing
> > > parents (which has been
> > > > shown to all important to child development)
> > > instead of emphasizing
> > > > racial/cultural/religious orientation?
> > > > --Doug Waite, MD
> > > >
> > > > Quoting "PRITCHARD, ARNIE"
> > > <ARNIE.PRITCHARD@po.state.ct.us>:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The Connecticut Department of Children and
> > > Families is
> > > > > planning an
> > > > > evaluation of its efforts to comply with the
> > > "pool provision"
> > > > > of the
> > > > > Multi-ethnic Placement Act of 1994 (MEPA).
> The
> > > pool provision
> > > > > requires any
>
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