hat white social workers looked at interracial adoptions as a chance for African-American children to climb up the social class ladder. The NABSW came to this conclusion since white middle class couples were able to provide adopted children with the comforts of suburban life. It seems that economically deprived families, white or back, are willing to adopt if they had the resources. Studies show that poverty is more rampant in African-American communities. Historically, families in the lower class have higher birth rates and don’t have the resources to provide for their offspring, let alone a adopted child. “Because of the economic and social status, African-Americans are said to contribute more babies to be put up for adoption, as opposed to being the ones able to adopt them.” (Bates, 1993).Interracial Adoptions have increased due to the shortage of white babies available for adoption. Contrary to the popular belief, interracial adoptions have little effect in decreasing the numbers of children in care because most of them have special needs and are teenagers. Only 4% of children available are infants. Most of the white couples who Interracial Adoptions9consider interracial adoption want infants and toddlers. There is no shortage of African-American families for such children.In 1995, Liberal Democrat Senator Howard Metzenbaum proposed a bill to prevent discrimination in adoption cases because of race. This bill has “thrown away” by the Department of Health and Human Services because of the opposition of transracial adoptions by black social workers. They called it “Racial Genocide” (Hunt, 1995) Due to the new welfare bill approved by the House Ways and Means, it is illegal for adoption agencies that get federal funds to discriminate. Because of the black social workers, thousands of black children have been disadvantaged. “There are as many as 100,000 children in foster ca...
