Judge Denies Black Social Worker Right To Adopt Her Two Nephews While Out-Of-State White Foster Parent Has Custody

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 13, 2023

Most people would think a social worker to be particularly qualified to serve as an adoptive parent. But that has not been the case with 36-year-old Black social worker Ashley Boone.

Despite being a “a licensed foster parent with expertise caring for higher-needs children, and an experienced social worker steeped in supporting kids who’ve been separated from their parents,” Boone has been unable

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