Adoption and race: Implementing the multiethnic placement act and the interethnic adoption provisions

Social Work

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-178

  Brooks, Devon ^a   Barth, Richard P ^b   Bussiere, Alice ^c   Patterson, Glendora ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Child Care Law Center   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Adoption; Interethnic Adoption Provisions; Multiethnic Placement Act; Racial matching

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033084641     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/44.2.167     Document Type: Article

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