Analyzing Ethical Conflict in the Transracial Adoption Debate: Three Conflicts Involving Community

Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Janet Farrell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Ethical Conflict

Analyzing Ethical Conflict in the Transracial Adoption Debate: Three Conflicts Involving Community

Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Farrell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Ethical Conflict ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This essay explores ethical conflicts underlying the discourse of the policy debate about transracial adoption, focusing on the adoption of Black children by whites. Three underlying conflicts are analyzed, namely, the values of equality versus community, interracial community versus mukiculturalism, individuality versus racial-ethnic community. The essay concludes with observations on multicultural families.

scholarly journals Erratum to: The Association Between Ethical Conflict and Adverse Outcomes

2009 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Gaudine ◽  
Linda Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Ethical Conflict

Sociodemographic Influences in the Prediction of Attitudes toward Transracial Adoption

2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Doty Hollingsworth
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Caucasian Men ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Age Category

An exploratory study of attitudes toward transracial adoption was conducted, using data from a 1991 national telephone opinion survey of 916 respondents. Seventy-one percent of those surveyed believed that race should not be a factor in who should be allowed to adopt a child. However, in a logistic regression analysis, respondents in the highest age category (i.e., those older than 64 years) were 63% less likely to approve of transracial adoption, compared with 18- to 29-year-olds. There was also an interaction of race and sex. African-American women were 84% less likely than African-American men to approve of transracial adoption. Compared with African-American men, Caucasian men were 72% less likely to approve. The importance of considering subpopulation differences in applying such findings to adoption policy, research, and practice is discussed.

Ethical Conflict among Clinical Psychologists and other Mental Health Workers

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Morrison ◽  
Bruce D. Layton ◽  
Joan Newman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Psychiatric Nurse ◽  
Ethical Conflict ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Ethical Conflicts

In a small geographical area a study was undertaken to determine the ethical conflicts experienced by mental health workers related to their clinical interventions. An Ethical Conflict Questionnaire, a 20-item, self-report attitude measure, was sent to all mental health workers in a tri-city area. A multivariate analysis of variance of the 164 returned questionnaires indicated that sex, years of clinical experience, and occupation (psychologist, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, psychiatric nurse, and a combined group of mostly vocational rehabilitation counselors and mental health therapy aides) significantly affect reported ethical conflict.

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