Multiethnic Placement Act

The goals of this Act, and the later modifications, were to decrease the time children in foster care were waiting to be adopted, to prevent any discrimination when making foster care and adoptive placements, and to facilitate the recruitment of foster and adoptive families especially for children from foster care. As with other important adoption related legislation, this law addresses many important adoption and other adoption-related issues; however, knowledge of the specifics of the Act has little practical every day use for most adopting persons.