Trans-Racial Adoption: Is It REALLY Common?

Angelina Jolie did it. As did Steven Spielberg. So did Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman when they were married.

Celebrity aside, what the above individuals have in common is that they are white and adopted black children. Though images of Jolie and her multi-cultural brood are common, statistically, the rate of children being adopted outside of their race is small (only one percent of white women adopt black children.)

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, tens of thousands of nonwhite children are waiting for adoptive families, and many have remained in foster care for at least two years. Of the 525,000 children in foster care, 45 percent are African American.

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(Via Black Voices)