Don’t blame the adoption agencies for a societal problem. White parents do not, by and large, want to adopt black babies. That’s where the racism is. Incidentally, the Association of Black Psychologists doesn’t want white parents to adopt black babies either, so it would be wrong to place this squarely on the shoulders of white parents. An adoption agency is left with the choice of either ignoring this problem and failing to place unwanted black babies or providing an incentive for people to adopt the babies. This is done by lowering the adoption fee, increasing the number of families that can afford to adopt the babies. From their perspective, its a simple question of “how do we get these babies into homes?”. You recommend “outreaching to African American families” as though that can somehow change the fact that there are not enough black families with sufficient income to adopt all of the black babies up for adoption in this country. Different prices for babies of different races is a terrible, terrible thing, but don’t blame the adoption agencies.
