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Is this policy
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unique to your agency?
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No.
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Most if not all
agencies prefer
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to place a child with a family
of the same racial background.
1:11:55
Hmm.
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Given the facts in this case
as you understand them,
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what would be
your recommendation?
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That the child
should be returned
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to his birth mother.
1:12:07
Thank you.
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No further questions.
1:12:14
Dr. Goldfein, you've stated
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that your organization
is opposed
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to interracial adoptions.
1:12:19
Does that mean you never
place black infants
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with white couples?
1:12:23
Oh, no. We do this all the time,
but these are temporary.
1:12:27
These children stay temporarily
in the white home
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until a suitable black family
comes along?
1:12:33
That's right.
1:12:34
How long does that take?
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It can take years.
1:12:37
And the child is then
1:12:39
wrenched from the only family
they've ever known...
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and turned over to strangers
because of the color
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of their skin?
1:12:48
It's the long-term
interest of the child
1:12:52
we are trying to protect.
1:12:53
Well, wouldn't
you say
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you were putting
political policy
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above the emotional
health of these children?
1:12:59
No.