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The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study tried to answer whether the gap is primarily caused by genetic factors or whether it is primarily caused by environmental and cultural factors. The study was funded by the Grant Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. By examining the cognitive ability and school ...
The article Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, along with other articles relating to the area of conflict (namely, the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed), is currently subject to active arbitration remedies, described in a 2010 Arbitration Committee case where the articulated principles included:
The use of the term to describe changing racial identity has been criticized by members of the transracial adoption community. Kevin H. Vollmers, executive director of an adoption non-profit, said the term is being "appropriated and co-opted", and that this is a "slap in the face" to transracial adoptees. [3]
JaeRan Kim, a Korean transracial adoptee and adoptee scholar, points out adoptees shouldn't be told how to feel. Adoptees have long pushed back against the narrative that they should be grateful ...
However, international transracial adoptions have continued. In the early 1970s, early transracial adoption proponents like Bernice Gottlieb likewise spurred the adoption of Asian children, not orphaned but who were living in stigmatized conditions, but whose parents wished to offer their children a better life outside their countries. [9]
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Additionally, an organization called Creating A Family reported that 60% of adoptions by LGBTQ families are transracial. One study even found that "gay and lesbian parents were more likely than heterosexual parents to be matched with hard-to-place children, partially because they were more open to being matched with children with hard-to-place ...
A white dad’s plea for help in raising a Black daughter sparks debate on transracial adoption. Char Adams. January 25, 2024 at 9:12 PM. On Sunday, Will, 36, posted what he thought was a harmless ...