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Protecting The Rights Of Hard To Place Children In Adoptions, Troy D. Farmer
Protecting The Rights Of Hard To Place Children In Adoptions, Troy D. Farmer
Indiana Law Journal
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The Indian Child Welfare Act In The Face Of Extinction, Sloan Phillips
The Indian Child Welfare Act In The Face Of Extinction, Sloan Phillips
American Indian Law Review
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Two Parents Are Better Than None: Whether Two Single, African American Adults--Who Are Not In A Traditional Marriage Or A Romantic Or Sexual Relationship With Each Other--Should Be Allowed To Jointly Adopt And Co-Parent African American Children, Angela Mae Kupenda
Journal Articles
This article proposes an additional adoption model to allow joint adoption and co-parenting by single African Americans who are not in a traditional marriage relationship with each other and not in a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. Under this model, for example, two friends, two sisters, two brothers, a sister and a brother, etc., could jointly adopt and co-parent a child. If some new model such as this one is not devised, many single blacks may hesitate to take on the entire adoption responsibility alone. As a result, many black children will continue to go without any parents. …
Foreword, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Foreword, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Faculty Scholarship
This special section of The Boston University Public Interest Law Journal addresses the issue of transracial adoptions. Few topics within family law generate as much controversy as the placement of Black or other minority and mixed race children for adoption with white families. Although transracial placement could in theory apply to the placement of white children with mixed race and Black families, in practice it has not. The predominant practice of matching adoptive children with adoptive parents of the same race has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years as many older and difficult to place minority children wait in …