The Children Who Wait - Summary | The Heritage of Words

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Unit Six : Women and Children
The Children Who Wait
Marsha Traugot
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Marsha Traugot's essay "The children Who Wait" discusses the scene of adoption in American context. Marsha Traugot begins her essay with the picture of Tammy, which has been published in a magazine with the hope that someone would be ready to adopt her. She is five and half years old with the face of Mona Lisa. The writer describes her unadaptable child had she been born before 1960. During that period only white healthy children were considered adaptable. Physically deformed children’s were referred as damaged goods. No one was ready to adopt such children. The children who were black, mixed racial group, handicapped and over five years were not adopted by families. This view, however, started disappearing after the sixties.

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Questions for Practice :

1. Whom does Marsha Traugot refer to as the children who wait?
2. Why was it difficult for the handicapped and the black children to find foster family?
3. According to Traugot , what changes are transforming the American adoption scene? What factors are responsible for the changes?
4. What kinds of parents were considered suitable for adopting children? What kind of children were considered 'Unadoptable'?
5. How do the adoption agencies find the potential parents?
6. What had happened to the handicapped children in the past?

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