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Direct linkSweeney, Kathryn A. – Family Relations, 2013
Analysis of interview data illustrates how White adoptive parents rationalize choices regarding adoptee race. Parents who were willing to adopt children of color stressed unwillingness to adopt Black children. The preference for adopting multiracial children goes against the prevalent method of racial classification, hypodescent, by defining…
Descriptors: Adoption, Whites, Racial Differences, African American Children
