Adoption

Racism Dealt a  Blow

And now, a good news story.

Institutionalised racism in the UK had taken a big hit. The "race criteria" has been wiped from adoption rules by the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, according to a piece in the NZ Herald.

Here is the money quote:

Dismissing critics who insist ethnicity must be a concern when matching a child to adoptive parents, he said "politically correct attitudes and ridiculous bureaucracy" had left officials too reluctant to authorise interracial adoptions. "As a result children from ethnic minority backgrounds languish in care for longer than other kids and are denied the opportunities they deserve."

It turns out that as a result of racist nonsense, minority ethnic children have to wait on average three years for an adopting family; white children wait on average just under two years. 

Britain's new advice orders social workers to make placing a child with any suitable family their priority.

Right on. A pox on the houses of those who continue to make ethnicity a distinguishing attribute of being human.