The Children Who Wait

The Children Who Wait 

Essay

The essay “the children who wait” has been written by marsh taught in this essay the writer describes how a new tend appeared in adoption according to her in the past only healthy, white and handsome children were adopt but handicapped and negro children were considered age damged thing and black children were neglected to adoped here in this essay handicapped black orpnanes, homeless. Children are the who wait the discrimination between white people and black people made difficult for the adoption. 

‘The Childern who wait’ is an essay written by Marsha Traugot. In this essay, she suggests reasons for a new trend in adoption in America. Now a wider verity of families can open their house to children who in the past would have been labeled unadoptable.

In the beginning of her essay she quotes an advertisement related to a five and half year’s old girl- Tammy. She is a handicapped black girl and she is beyond infancy.  After giving her description Traugot carries out the history about adoption .Twenty years ago or until about 1960 the process of adoption was strict. If a child was not white that would not adopted. Adoption was done only of the child that was infant and healthy. A family having older siblings could not also take a child in adoption. Similarly, only middle or upper class childless white couples could adopt healthy white infants.

Changes the civil rights movements, birth control changing social values social science research are responsible factor for the changes. The black civil right movement change people altitude to the black children the women’s movements legalized abortion now a day unmarried mother can kept there baby’s with them without society objection