{"id":29893,"date":"2013-03-29T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29893"},"modified":"2013-03-29T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:54:14","slug":"adopting-the-wisdom-of-pearl-s-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29893","title":{"rendered":"Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/lifestyle\/social-issues\/adopting-wisdom-pearl-s-buck\" target=\"_blank\">Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">gbtimes: The Third Angle Chinese news and video reports on China today<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asa Butcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When listing an author\u2019s life achievements, it is rare for their Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize to be overshadowed. However, Pearl S. Buck\u2019s humanitarian work with children leaves those awards in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A pioneer in mixed race adoption, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearl_S._Buck\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl S. Buck<\/a> was ahead of her time in many issues considered unpopular in 1950\u2019s America, all of which contributed to her being counted as one of the 20th century\u2019s greatest women.<\/p>\n<p>In the second part of our interview with Mrs. Janet Mintzer, CEO and President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psbi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl S. Buck International<\/a>, we talk to her about the adoption legacy and how it all began.<\/p>\n<p><em>Part one of the interview is available <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/culture\/literature\/pearl-s-bucks-relevance-modern-china\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Match a child<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Welcome House Child Adoption Program, created by Pearl S. Buck in 1949, currently have adoption programs in China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Korea, and the Philippines. They have found families for more than 7,000 children that, six decades ago, were &#8216;considered unadoptable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>If you were bi-racial in the United States in the late-\u201840s you were considered unadoptable<\/strong> \u2013 that was the mentality of the time period. Adoption was secretive and they would match parents that had blond hair with blond-haired kids or blue eyes with blue-eyed kids because that\u2019s just the way it was done back then,\u201d begins Mrs. Mintzer.<\/p>\n<p>She explains that there were no mixed race parents able to adopt, so officials were unable to \u2018match\u2019 a child, so they were left to languish in the orphanage. Pearl S. Buck was well-known in adoption circles, having written about the issue and also having adopted several orphans, including two bi-racial children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/gbtimes.com\/lifestyle\/social-issues\/adopting-wisdom-pearl-s-buck\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck gbtimes: The Third Angle Chinese news and video reports on China today 2013-03-26 Asa Butcher When listing an author\u2019s life achievements, it is rare for their Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize to be overshadowed. However, Pearl S. 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