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Article: Recruiting Mexican American adoptive parents
- Article from:
- Child Welfare
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Transaction Inc. Sep/Oct 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This study of 591 Mexican Americans evaluated various strategies for recruiting prospective Mexican American adoptive parents. Approximately one-third of the sample reported an interest in adoption but many perceived both structural and cultural obstacles to adoption. Multivariate analyses of the predictors of future adoption using various hypothetical recruiting strategies indicated that the perception of structural obstacles to adoption, not initial interest in adoption, was the strongest predictor of future likelihood to adopt. Suggestions are presented to increase the recruitment of Mexican American prospective adoptive parents.
Increased attention is being given to identifying and ...