Frederica Mathews-Green describes why there are so many children in foster care despite couples’ intentions to adopt them:
“There are roughly 400,000 children in foster care nationwide, with about 38,000 available for adoption. These children wait an average of 2 2/3 years to be adopted; the reasons vary. One is the lack of black adoptive couples: although only 14% of all children are black, they make up 38% of all children in foster care awaiting adoption. Some social workers will delay these children’s adoptions for years, searching for a black couple and turning away whites. Black children in foster homes, bonding with white foster parents, may be taken away if it is suspected that the parents will apply to adopt. The child will be moved to a black foster family, although it may have no interest in adopting.”
The National Association of Black Social Workers has fought the adoption of African-American children by white families for the past 30 years.
“Black children should be placed only with black families… [We will] work and this particular form of genocide.”
Elizabeth Bartholet Family Bonds (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), XX I
Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 133
Of course, things may have changed since 1994, but these quotes are still notable.
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