Explain why some children are more likely to be adopted, or adopted more quickly, than are other children in the United States. What did the parents in Kim’s study say drove them to adopt from Korea instead of children of color in the United States? Do you think this trend will shift or change? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
May include the following:
a. White parents want to adopt white healthy babies, often overlooking healthy American babies of different race.
b. Parents said they wanted children to both look and act like them socially and expressed fears about minority infants bringing “undesirable qualities” with them.
You might also like to view...
Society's rules and expectations simply make life easier on parents and children when the mother and father are ____________
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Sociologists emphasize that race____________________________
a. is a socially constructed reality b. is important biologically c. is established genetically not socially d. has no importance within society
The scientific process can BEST be viewed as:
a. an arrow that goes straight from hypothesis to data to generalization. b. a frame which allows us to better see the meaning of data. c. a precision instrument which allows us to separate theory from fact. d. a wheel that moves continuously from theory to data and back again.
If you are being paid to monitor an examination and you see a friend cheating on the test, you will probably experience a certain amount of role conflict
Indicate whether the statement is true or false