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This 3 page paper argues that California should encourage more adoptions rather than putting children in foster care. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to encourage adoptions. Discussion It seems so obvious that it hardly needs to be stated, but many recent studies have shown that kids do better when they grow up in
a household in which both parents are present. And yet thousands of children never get that chance, because they wind up in foster care instead of being placed in new,
permanent homes. Its a sad but not particularly surprising commentary on our society that "Caucasian children are five times more likely to be adopted than to stay in long-term foster
care, compared to African American children. The Caucasian rate is 2.5 times better than for Latino children" (McBroom, 1997). These percentages changed from previous research, when it was indicated
that the "Caucasian rate was only twice as high as the rate for minority children" (McBroom, 1997). This means that adoption statistics are inaccurate, and "the number of minority children
who have stayed in foster care when they could have been adopted has been greatly underestimated" (McBroom, 1997). Race is not the only determining factor here: older children (those
between three and five) are "five times less likely to be adopted than to stay in foster care compared to infants" (McBroom, 1997). The numbers show clearly that people want
to adopt white infants, which, among other things, gives the lie to the myth that Americans love children. If they did, all children would be adopted at the same rate,
but its clear from these observations that prospective parents are "cherrypicking" and adopting white children, and younger children, at significantly higher rates than they are adopting African American, Latino, or
older children. This rejection compounds a self-image that is already negative, and while it is to be commended that some children at least get homes, the fact that whites are
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