The Black Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement had far-reaching and transformative effect on the adoption practices in America. The first movement helped in making America a more integrated and discrimination-free society. It helped to change the formerly vindictive attitude of the Whites against the Afro-Americans. In the changed American society, the liberal whites gathered the black and mixed-race infants and toddlers into their families. As well as that, the Blacks started to enjoy the riches of justice and decency.
The second movement, i.e. the Women’s Movement, gave women the reproductive rights. There was the easy availability of birth control methods to them. Also, abortion was legalized. There was also a changed attitude toward sexual behaviour and marriage. Women didn’t have to get married to have sex. Even unwed mothers faced less societal stigma: they reared their child and were supported by their family members. Women’s rights advocates pointed out that a mature single woman could care for a child as well as two-parents could. All these changes reduced the birth of unwanted babies, and thereby children who could find a passage to foster homes. Thus, the two movements had a positive impact on adoption.
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