{"id":9194,"date":"2013-07-07T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2013-07-07T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T05:12:39","slug":"the-economics-of-adoption-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-adoption-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Adoption And Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070713_0442_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When adopting a child, you may well be presented with various options priced at different levels writes NPR:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The laws of supply and demand mean that Africa-American children are easier to adopt than biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children.<\/li>\n<li>Adopting an African-American child, for example, would cost one family $18,000. A Caucasian child would have cost $35,000.<\/li>\n<li>Those who set the prices are classifying based on race for altruistic reasons. It is harder to place non-Caucasian children with families, and so the hope is that by setting a lower price, the child is more likely to find a family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how some states are moving away from race-based pricing, the experience of adopting for one family, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/06\/27\/195967886\/six-words-black-babies-cost-less-to-adopt?\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/06\/27\/195967886\/six-words-black-babies-cost-less-to-adopt?\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/07\/03\/freak-est-links-77\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When adopting a child, you may well be presented with various options priced at different levels writes NPR: The laws of supply and demand mean that Africa-American children are easier to adopt than biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children. Adopting an African-American child, for example, would cost one family $18,000. A Caucasian child would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070713_0442_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9207,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}