I want to share with you an NPR audio about adoption in America.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=196794776&m=196919362
It is part of Michelle Norris' Race Card Project in NPR radio. My wife and I were uncomfortable listening to the differential price tags for adoption of white, biracial, and black children. We ended up consoling ourselves by the fact that our children were still asleep. We do not want our children, who are usually the minority in every classroom, to feel less worthy of esteem than any other child because of their skin color. In Africa, people are used to guardianship (where a child is not stripped of his/her identity) and not adoption. To learn more about adoption issues go to this blog and related others:
http://www.firstmotherforum.com/2009/06/why-is-adoption-like-slavery.html
It seems corporate America wants to commoditize everything.
Thanks,
Michael Ndemanu, Ph.D.
-- http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=196794776&m=196919362
It is part of Michelle Norris' Race Card Project in NPR radio. My wife and I were uncomfortable listening to the differential price tags for adoption of white, biracial, and black children. We ended up consoling ourselves by the fact that our children were still asleep. We do not want our children, who are usually the minority in every classroom, to feel less worthy of esteem than any other child because of their skin color. In Africa, people are used to guardianship (where a child is not stripped of his/her identity) and not adoption. To learn more about adoption issues go to this blog and related others:
http://www.firstmotherforum.com/2009/06/why-is-adoption-like-slavery.html
It seems corporate America wants to commoditize everything.
Thanks,
Michael Ndemanu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
University of Southern Indiana
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