...1994, the legislation prohibits the denial of a placement solely on the basis of race but allows for consideration of the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster parents to meet the needs of a child of this background. The fact that this legislation...

...national origin of the adoptive parent or the child. However, it does allow the agency to consider the cultural, ethnic or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child of this background as one of a number of...

...receives federal financial assistance from denying a placement solely on the basis of race, but allows for consideration of the cultural, ethnic, or racial background...meet the needs of a child of this background [McRoy & Hall 1995]. The act also requires that agencies "engage in diligent recruitment efforts of potential...

...federal financial assistance from denying a placement solely on the basis of race; but it allows for consideration of the cultural, ethnic, or racial background...parents to meet the needs of a child of this background. The act also requires that agencies engage in diligent recruitment efforts for foster and adoptive...

...read 'Permissible Consideration --An agency or entity [which receives federal assistance] may consider the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child of such background as one of a...

...race as a permissible consideration. This provision had read: An agency or entity . . . may consider the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child of this background as one of a...

...placement solely on this basis. The race of the child, and the capacity of prospective adoptive or foster parents to meet the needs of a child of this background, could be considered along with other factors in determining the child's best interest. Primarily to...

...previous objectives as their goals, the act also contained the following language: An agency may consider the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of the child of this background as one of...

...allowed "permissible consideration," a provision that had allowed federally funded agencies to consider the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child as one of a number of factors used...

...contained in the "permissible consideration" section of MEPA which states that an agency "may consider the cultural, ethnic or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child of this background as one of a...