Black adoptive parents can help at-risk Black children avoid the tragedy of the foster care-to-prison pipeline—by adopting more than they do now, writes Brennan Nevada Johnson.
When word got out about our story, my mother, sister, and I were interviewed around the clock by local newspapers, radio stations, and on TV discussing the importance of BlackSure, adoption wasn’t uncommon, and this was an award that was given out annually. But what made our perspective so special was that you almost never saw or heard about situations where Black adults were adopting Black children.
Knowing this, I realized that their upbringing was most likely much different than mine. I had the privilege of having a Black mother not only love me, but also help me identify and interact with the world as a Black person. I recognize how fortunate my sister and I were to be adopted as infants by a successful, educated, Black woman. Had we not, we probably would have ended up in a similar situation as most Black children who don’t get adopted—trapped in the foster care system.
Foster care is a tough life. There’s no other way to put it. Very briefly, in my childhood I was put in the foster care system and was unfairly separated from my mother and sister as a result of predatory and. Even though this was for less than a year, I bounced around between schools and households. I also despised my emotionally abusive foster parent, who happened to be white.
Among the myths that keep Black families from adopting is the idea that adopting children is very expensive, which simply is not true.
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