User:Zazraj/sandbox

Creating a plan for my article of choice: International Adoption

International adoption has a good amount of text, I think that is important for me to figure out what I can add to the writing, due to a lack of information, and what I should just accept is out of my domain. For example, I really focused in on transnational adoption of Koreans. Specifically South Koreans and how being adopted affects their self concept.

I looked at what the challenges are for this specific adoptee and how they may attempt to overcome these challenges. I also learned about how transnational adoptees navigate these challenges and how developing a sense of community can be a first step towards self fulfillment.

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Creating a plan for my article of choice: Interracial Adoption

As a first step, i will be reading the entire article and taking notes. I then will need to do some research of my own to gather sources and more information. An area of focus of mine will be to improve the literature surrounding other forms of adoption. There is a good bit on Korean adoption, two paragraphs, but i feel more could be written about other forms of interracial adoption. Also, this article lacks support and I will be able to strengthen it by adding some documents which provide convincing sources.

After having read the page, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is that there is no infographic on the top right corner. There is blank white space begging to be filled.

In terms of the STATISTICS of the page, the information talks in four sets of dates. 1998, 2000, 2008-2009, 1999-2005, and lastly 1999-201. I reckon that there must be some information on interracial adoption which is more recent and I hope to find it.

In the HISTORY section, the author states "(There are now about 6,500 cases a year.)" but does not give any guidance as to when this "now" is or was. Again, aside from the aforementioned "now" the most recent finding relates to the fact that "In the 1990s the placement of black children into non-black homes virtually came to a complete stop." However, I know this cannot be entirely true, especially when considering interracial adoption that occurs domestically. I mean come on now, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopted Zahara in 2005.

Considering the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION section, it seems to be improperly titled and improperly placed.

In the LAW section, there is little information about the laws that may have prevented individuals from adopting outside of their race. I would be intrigued to learn more about what forces were at play in inhibiting adoption. Surely it could also have been rooted in an unspoken code that was upheld by the racist roots of this country. Also, this section does not discuss much about the laws surrounding the adoption process itself, which may add value to the reading.

The SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION section contains a lot of ambiguity surrounding some of the claimed facts and information. A lot of the facts are mentioned without context. Percentages are tossed about without saying when the info was produced or whom the information was produced by. A similar truth exists for the many different quotes used by the author. I think research is going to be a hugely important aspect of this project and I expect I will have to spend much time doing so before being able to properly contextualize some of the information. Also, in a more general sense, this section is broken into subsections of Controversy, Support, and Opposition. However, the information that comes up in these different sections is not necessarily aligned properly, I think it could be reorganized and added to. Doing so would make the conclusion of this article much more impactful.