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Adoption | Transracial Adoptions Should Be Encouraged

Kirsten Wonder Albrecht is the president of the TransRacial Adoption Group (TRA Group), an international organization that is dedicated to finding permanent adoptive homes for minority children and coordinating support groups for transracial adoptees and their families. In the following viewpoint, Albrecht contends that transracial adoptions should be encouraged because efforts to find minority homes for minority children are often unsuccessful and result in the child’s placement in foster or institutional care settings. She argues that existing transracial adoption practices discourage...

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