Color-Evasive Love and Freedom from Violence in (Neo)Liberal Adoption Laws

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• Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
  This act was intended to help children waiting in foster care move more quickly into safe and permanent homes. However, the timelines set in place to the termination of parental rights has proven to be disproportionately harmful to poor families and families of color.
• Buck v. Bell (1927)
  In this case, the Supreme Court legitimized eugenic sterilization laws. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ruled that a Virginia statute permitting the forced sterilization of institutionalized people found to be "afflicted with an hereditary form of insanity or imbecility" was within the power of the State under the Fourteenth Amendment and did not violate the Constitution. Regarding Carrie Buck and her family, Justice Holmes declared, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
• Interethnic Provisions of 1996
  Part of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 was a provision that included a tax credit to help families with adoption costs and to promote the adoption of foster children. Additional provisions in the act intended to strengthen and clarify the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act of 1994.
• Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994
  Part of the Improving America's Schools Act, the Multiethnic Placement Act sought to prevent discrimination on the basis of race, color, and/or national origin when making foster or adoptive placements.
• Universal Access to Child Care Fact Sheet (2025)
  In 2025, New Mexico became the first state in the nation to guarantee no-cost universal child care, regardless of income.
• Webinar - Color-Evasive Love and Freedom from Violence in (Neo)Liberal Adoption Laws (2025)
  In this webinar, Professor Kit Myers of the University of California, Merced, discusses race, adoption, and family in the United States with Dr. Donna D. Anderson and her And Justice For All class.