"Stars adoption of black children was little more than a fashion accessory"

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. A counter-view to the original 1971 NABSW claim:

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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-09-14/news/9409130503_1_adoption-foster-care-trans-racial

For more than 20 years, black children in foster care have been held hostage to ideology. Adoptions of black children by white couples have been severely curtailed since the National Association of Black Social Workers blasted the practice as ''racial and cultural genocide'' in 1971.

The social workers organization charged that white parents could not raise black children to cope with a racist society, and that children were being cut off from their heritage. Better to stay in foster care or in institutions than to be so alienated, went the theory, which became policy in most states.

Since then, studies have shown that trans-racial adoption does not produce emotionally crippled, racially confused adults who fit nowhere. A 20-year study found that trans-racial adoptees (almost all adopted as infants) were as healthy, well-adjusted and close to their adoptive parents as their white siblings, who were the parents' children by birth.

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''The greatest fear was that they'd grow up to be Oreos, black on the outside and white on the inside,'' says researcher Rita Simon, professor of public affairs and law at The American University. ''That's all garbage. The black kids are the first to say: 'We know what we are. We can look in the mirror.' ''

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