Every day there are children that are given up for adoption, and there are children that get adopted. However, not every child given up for adoption gets paired up with a family. As the founder of Lifetime Adoption, the goal you are most likely striving towards is to help those children find permanent home. Even so, this goal is even more difficult to reach because of preferences, which include age, race, and gender. Although age and gender can play a big part on how likely a child will be adopted, a child’s race can have a much bigger impact on the odds of them getting adopted. Through comparing the racial demographics of adoption between Caucasian and African-American children, the racial demographics of the foster care system between Caucasian and African-American children, and by examining the effects of that race plays on African-American children in the foster care system, we will be able to see how the odds of being adopted as a young Caucasian child are more favorable to those of a young African-American child.
Racial Demographics of Adoption
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Though there is already a lower amount of African-American children compared to Caucasian children, 56 percent Caucasian (Malm and Vandivere), African-American children are even less likely to be adopted. According to “Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption”, it states that there is “a preference bias in favor of girls and against African-American children (Baccara et al 3)”. Not only are the odds of these children being adopted low due to the biases, but the cost to adopt an African-American child is also thousands of dollars cheaper compared a white child, which is around $8,000 to the data received in 2004 and 2009 (Baccara et al 3). This implies that there are probably more African-American children who are not being adopted in comparison to the Caucasian