Homosexual Adoption Good - Interracial Adoption Bad
Liberals, thy hypocrisy knows no bounds. For years conservatives have fought against allowing homosexual couples to adopt children under the premise that a home consisting of both a mother and a father was the ideal environment for raising a child. Liberals have countered that argument stating that it was better for a child to have two mothers, or two fathers, rather than have no parents at all. One of those groups advocating for homosexual adoption is Child Welfare League of America. According to their own website:
CWLA’s Standards of Excellence for Adoption Services state, “Applicants should be assessed on the basis of their abilities to successfully parent a child needing family membership and not on their race, ethnicity or culture, income, age, marital status, religion, appearance, differing lifestyles, or sexual orientation.” Further, applicants for adoption should be accepted “on the basis of an individual assessment of their capacity to understand and meet the needs of a particular available child at the point of adoption and in the future.”
As it turns out, the CWLA recently endorsed a report issued by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute which says that minority children are being ill served by being placed into white families.
Minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions, a report released on Tuesday said.
The report, based on an examination of the law’s impact over a decade, said that minority children adopted into white households face special challenges and that white parents need preparation and training for what might lie ahead.
The report recommends that the law — the Multiethnic Placement Act, which covers agencies receiving federal dollars and promotes a color-blind approach — be amended to permit agencies to consider race and culture as one of many factors when selecting parents for children from foster care.
Many transracial adoptees say they struggle to fit in among their own family members. Shannon Gibney, 33, a writer in Minneapolis who describes herself as biracial, was adopted by a white couple who tried their best by providing things like books by black authors.
But having books and other things about blacks is no substitute for actual experience,” Ms. Gibney said. “When I had questions about even little things like how to wear my hair, there was no one around to help me with my questions.”
Had I known such a travesty was taking place in our country, I would have long ago advocated establishing a counseling group for minority children whose white parents are unable to offer advice on how they should wear their hair. Seriously, is this the best the New York Times could do as an example of how these children are somehow better off remaining in foster care rather than being adopted by a white family?
The real question however is why is it unacceptable to place a minority child with a white family, yet perfectly acceptable to place a heterosexual child in a homosexual family? Similar to the minority child having questions white parents may be unable to answer, a heterosexual child may have questions a homosexual parent would be unable to answer.
To be fair, the article does not actually state that transracial adoptions should be abolished, however it does say that race should be among the deciding factors when determining adoptive parents. By making this statement these advocacy groups are acknowledging the differences among the races and stating they should be taken into account, how then could they state at the same time that sexuality should not be a determining factor? If the assumption that homosexuality is genetically determined is correct, a homosexual parent would be just as genetically different from a heterosexual child as a white parent would be from a minority child.
Exit question: What would Barack Obama’s opinion be on transracial parent child relationships?
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
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This issue chaps my hide. I don’t believe that transracial adoption hurts minority children. The children end up in families which have more wealth than the kids would have receved if they were left in foster care. I don’t like homosexual adoption however our foster care system is so broken that children are often sexually abused and bouned around in numerous placments. If Christans would adopt more Black kids in this country some of the problems of racism would diminish. Interracial adoption creates family intergration. Family intergration changes race relations. I am an African American who has adopted An African American girl. My wife is White and we have a bi-racial biological son between us. The goverment subsidises adoptions from foster care. I recieve over 6000 dollars a year untill she is 18. partially because my dauter was African American and black kids are hard to place. I also recieve free medical care untill she is 18. Please tell your friends without kids that they could get paid to give a Black child a good loving home. All adoptions are not expensive. If chistians do not adopt the homosexual community will.
There are a lot of things that black people in this country go through that white people can’t even begin to understand. I don’t believe that all transracial adoptions should be abolished however white people should be given extensive training on what raising a black child means…and if you believe that your love for that child will be enough to raise him happy and healthy your wrong… a black child is not viewed in this country the same as a white child we’re not treated the same.. I don’t believe white people really understand that its more than just the color of their skin and ours that sets us apart.I work with a young man adopted by a white family…and he has the same problems all young black men his age go through and this white woman raising him does not understand that and has put him on medication that he does not need. As far as homosexuals adopting goes I don’t believe that they would be any more likely to molest a child nor do I believe they would make worse parents…just look around MOST parents suck and don’t even know it. I don’t believe theirs any genetics involved in homosexuality…as a homosexual I can honestly tell you that I choose to be this way. I have no desire to be straight I have no problems understanding the plight of straight people.