Policy Dilemmas and the Adoption of Black Children

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All the social work, like all educational practice in Britain today, has to be multicultural in character (Verma and Bagley, 1979 and 1981). This is because (among other reasons) in many British cities at least a third of all children have parents of New Commonwealth origin. The future of Britain, we can cheerfully say, looks black. The semantic paradox is deliberate. In numerous ways ‘black’ is used negatively, and forms part of the language of institutional racism which fundamentally affects the lives of black children (Young and Bagley, 1979). Further, at least 20 per cent of immigrants from the New Commonwealth countries of Africa, India and the Caribbean are in an interethnic marriage, and the children of these mixed marriages are part of Britain’s growing multiracial, multicultural future (Bagley, 1972a, 1979a and 1982). All practice, in whatever profession, has implication and meaning within a network of relationships between people of different cultures.

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