Transracial Adoption, Neoliberalism, and Religion

A Test of Moderating Effects

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2347479
AutoresL Perry (0000-0002-6398-636X, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, autor correspondente), Samuel L Perry
Ano2016
Volume37
Fascículo13
Páginas1843-1868
Data de publicação2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Family Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192513x14541445
OpenAlexW2163392518
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas27

Scholars of transracial adoption (TRA) have theorized that neoliberal ideology-valuing unregulated markets, welfare-retrenchment, color-blindness, and privatized charity-has catalyzed support for TRA among political and religious conservatives as a way of relieving governments from subsidizing poor minority children in foster care or their families on welfare. Drawing on theories linking neoliberal ideology, conservative Protestantism, and race, I examine neoliberalism's effect on support for TRA and its possible moderating relationship with evangelicalism across both Whites and non-Whites. Analyses of national survey data demonstrate that both neoliberalism and evangelicalism in their main-effects are either unassociated or negatively associated with TRA approval. However, neoliberalism interacts with evangelicalism such that evangelicals who hold more strongly to neoliberal views are more inclined to support TRA. This effect holds across both White and racial minority respondents. Findings suggest that neoliberalism leads to greater support for TRA primarily within the context of evangelical Protestantism, thereby helping account for growing enthusiasm toward TRA among conservative Protestants

Conservatism · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Retrenchment · Sociology · Subsidy · Welfare · Welfare reform · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Public Administration · Reproductive Health and Technologies