Quebec's youth protection agency has revised its adoption registration form for parents and no longer allows them to explicitly state the preferred race for their child.
A spokesperson for Quebec's Health Ministry says it recognizes its previous adoption registration form needed to be changed and that the intention was never to discriminate against children on the basis of race or colour.
Dominique Lebrun said the form had "no other basis" but to exclude children of colour from social services.Up until recently, that process included an application form that asked potential adoptive parents to describe what kind of child they wanted — including age range, sex, health status and race. As far as Lebrun is concerned, asking parents which race they prefer is especially problematic for mixed bank adoptions since, until the adoption process is complete, those foster families are paid by the Quebec government.
Stephen Hennessy, an educator who works at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and specializes in child and family mental health, says lots of harm could be caused to children if they are placed in homes that are not equipped to deal with their cultural realities."I'd rather you be straight up and tell me 'that's not what I want' than to take on a child and then further abuse or damage happens," Hennessy said.
The spokesperson also said that youth protection officials have the best interests of every child at heart — regardless of race or ethnicity — and there was a logic behind each of the questions on the form.
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