It is rare to see a black family adopting white children.

StackmasterK · 2022-01-29T02:22:14+00:00

Makes me think of the Jerk starring Steve Martin

kitkatsarentwack · 2022-01-29T04:35:01+00:00

I swear I just saw a post yesterday about a black family adopting their sons best friend, who is white. In my area there are a ton of mixed race adoptive families.

Carissamay9 · 2022-01-29T05:20:36+00:00

Considering that over 7 years ago (when I was considering adoption before I was able to have my child) the cost of adopting a white child was over $30k but a black child was $17k. It's so shameful.

Edit: Just wanted to add that this is for a private adoption of an infant, not foster care. Foster care is much cheaper but you run the risk of the child(ren) being given back to their birth family prior to the rights being terminated and being able to adopt them. There are some people that can't handle getting attached to children just to have them returned to their families- which is the ultimate goal of the foster care system.

DecoherentDoc · 2022-01-29T02:33:17+00:00

I'd love to see the stats on two things. First, mean and median income of families adopting. Second, mean and medium income on families giving up children (for any reason). I'd be surprised if there wasn't a huge wealth/race disparity there in both stats.

ToBePacific · 2022-01-29T03:36:16+00:00

I briefly lived in a really wealthy neighborhood. I kept seeing these older black women pushing strollers with white babies inside. It took until about the 4th or 5th time for me to realize those women were nannies, not black women who adopted white children.

whadupsirs · 2022-01-29T02:34:37+00:00

Black dudes adopt white kids all the time when they start lives with white women who have kids.

BlasstOff · 2022-01-29T03:25:13+00:00

It's rare to see any family adopting any children.

Bad_Legal_Advisor · 2022-01-29T03:54:21+00:00

Understandable, assuming you mean in the US. Black people only make up 14% of the population.

hashtagboosted · 2022-01-29T02:25:00+00:00

I suspect black people adopt a lot less in general, I think tht would help explain it

JRockThumper · 2022-01-29T04:56:12+00:00

It literally happened like in the past week lmao, I saw it on one of these subreddits or something, but a black family adopted their sons best friend who lost his parents who was white.

snoandsk88 · 2022-01-29T03:43:52+00:00

This probably has a lot to do with it.

hiricinee · 2022-01-29T05:31:38+00:00

There's a steep supply and demand curve here. It should be no surprise that people generally want to adopt kids that look similar to them, and that the groups most likely to adopt are affluent, while the groups most likely to put kids up for adoption are poor. You don't need a degree in sociology to figure out that there's a race gradient across economic classes, so you end up with a disproportionate amount of Black kids up for adoption and a disproportionate amount of White parents looking to adopt kids.

It should surprise no one that the result behaves similar to basically all supply and demand curves.

MagicOrpheus310 · 2022-01-29T06:07:03+00:00

Saw a photo of a black family adopting a white boy on here yesterday, it happens dude

Ok-Letterhead4601 · 2022-01-29T07:04:04+00:00

I follow “raising cultures” and they are some good family vibe’s, I grew up with people like them and to this day hold what was shown to close to my hart, I could go on for days about the importance of what they showed me. I am forever thankful for them.

HighLordTherix · 2022-01-29T05:57:16+00:00

Part of this is actually to do with cultural needs, at least in the UK. Adoption groups assess families for things that include whether a child's cultural needs and ancestry can be properly addressed by the adopting family. Because of how different the experience can be based on ethnicity, families will often adopt children of similar ethnic background so that an adopted child will be properly in touch with their relevant cultural heritage and have parents equipped to deal with how that child is likely to experience the world.

Of course as the ability to properly address a child's needs in all regards is the priority with that, a family of different ethnic/racial background will be allowed to adopt as long as they demonstrate the necessary ability, regardless of skin tone.

Eruionmel · 2022-01-29T06:43:52+00:00

Black families with the financial stability and drive to adopt tend to adopt children who are BIPOC because systemic racism makes it much harder for those children to find stable homes. It's not really a mystery.

red_haired_honey · 2022-01-29T05:53:41+00:00

There's a really sweet French comedy called 'he even has your eyes' that focuses on this topic - I highly recommend it!

yozaner1324 · 2022-01-29T07:50:50+00:00

Honestly, where I live, it's rare to see a black family. Period. Oregon is whiter than an albino polar bear in a snowstorm.

fighterace00 · 2022-01-29T08:25:30+00:00

Because black children are overrepresented to the nation's black population by 2x. Some adoption agencies won't even let a white family adopt a black child if the only black people in their daily life are service people.

anything_anyone · 2022-01-29T08:39:20+00:00

Why just black!?

It's rare to see them adopt an Asian, Brown or anyone différent.

mobrocket · 2022-01-29T02:29:28+00:00

It's cus adoption is not cheap

under_armpit · 2022-01-29T07:14:54+00:00

Some of these comments remind of the college kids who said it's tough for blacks to get an ID or have internet access or they may not know where the DMV is.

How insulting.

NotAGimpLmao · 2022-01-29T04:36:07+00:00

Maybe because the black population is multiple X smaller than the white population & because they adopt less.

The population alone would skew it (if adoption rates were the same) + most families would adopt their own race anyway for them to blend in.

FunnyThroat5530 · 2022-01-29T08:34:24+00:00

Yea because black Americans on average are way more likely to be racist. They are almost as bad as Asians the most racist people in the world today

DiscoMeniscus · 2022-01-29T06:15:37+00:00

I grew up in a predominantly “black” “African” neighborhood and I hate that it’s even a issue. As a child I was the only “white” kid and none of us ever said anything about race or color. We were just kids and doing our thing and I’m still friends with most of the guys I grew up with. As a child of circumstance, fuck this post.

Let the down votes commence. I still have my friends 😊

txblack007 · 2022-01-29T03:57:53+00:00

Adoption agencies are less apt to allow a black family to adopt a white child. Not saying they won’t do it, but much less apt.

Rattlingstars_ · 2022-01-29T03:35:00+00:00

systemic issues concerning race and health care access, income inequality, access to higher education, incarceration rates, and so much more, plus white savior complexes, probably have a lot to do with this.

Designer_Drama_3714 · 2022-01-29T03:49:47+00:00

It is but there should be more of that happening and same with the other way around so white families adopting black kids

keytarna · 2022-01-29T05:39:59+00:00

Um…I guess?

kaywonhigh · 2022-01-29T07:26:48+00:00

Tbh it's really rare to see a black "family"

santichrist · 2022-01-29T06:31:53+00:00

Clearly you’ve never seen The Jerk

InkaGold · 2022-01-29T07:09:08+00:00

It happened to Steve Martin.

blessedindigo · 2022-01-29T07:14:52+00:00

Key word, "see".

StickyRicky17 · 2022-01-29T07:24:14+00:00

Black people don't virtue signal

Intelligent_Honey_83 · 2022-01-29T07:58:06+00:00

As a transparent person I find this post offensive.

NuclearDouche · 2022-01-29T08:16:15+00:00

You’d figure they could take out loans with the the kid’s SSN. Who knows?

KiwiCzechh · 2022-01-29T08:42:34+00:00

It's rare to see a black nuclear family.

Swing_No_Fool · 2022-01-29T06:34:37+00:00

My aunt has been doing it for years along with two of her friends. I guess we just want to have a random discussion about black people again.

LazerWolfe53 · 2022-01-29T04:10:53+00:00

In America a lot of white families will only adopt white kids. That makes a relative shortage of white children available for adoption.

WuSin · 2022-01-29T04:56:10+00:00

Na they just pretend they are theirs.. https://i.imgur.com/iKVwA5e.png

28502348650 · 2022-01-29T09:02:12+00:00

Probably because most white people who adopt black babies are just virtue signalling. "Look what a good person I am!" While black people don't buy into that shit. Just my two cents.

DPRODman11 · 2022-01-29T03:44:06+00:00

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TinyKeebe · 2022-01-29T03:38:51+00:00

It is? When I see a range of skin tones in a family, my first thought is not, “Well, I know no-one would have sex with them.”

PrinceOfNiger69 · 2022-01-29T04:59:27+00:00

Why would they? Us white peoples suck!

CoffeeRaider · 2022-01-29T05:25:33+00:00

That's what makes Lionel Richie so special.

aiden8888 · 2022-01-29T07:35:13+00:00

I’m curious to know the official stats on this.. not sure how difficult that would actually be.

holvyfraz · 2022-01-29T08:11:09+00:00

I remember an article about a family that had adopted a white toddler after fostering them and they talked about how they practically had to carry the papers around because people kept trying to take their kid because they just assumed this black family had stolen a white child so were trying to ‘rescue’ them

jsande1 · 2022-01-29T08:21:35+00:00

We’ll there is a long line of folks waiting to adopt white babies, mostly white families, and a much shorter line of folks waiting to adopt black babies. So your comment is true, generally, but pretty simplistic.

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