Judge Says Adoptions Should Be Color Blind
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — State social workers seeking adoptive parents for racially mixed children must abandon a policy of trying to put them only in black homes, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Robert McRae said last week that he found little merit in the state’s argument that children of white-black couples would lose their black heritage in white homes.
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