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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Mixed-race adoption 'may be in child's best interest'  As the government reviews family law, mediation and relationships in respect to adoption, one leading judge has suggested that parents should be able to adopt a child regardless of their race. Speaking to the Times, Family Division president Sir Nicholas Wall has backed mixed-race adoptions, saying they may be in the child's best interests. "One tries to place a child as appropriately as possible, racially and culturally, but if one cannot the interests of the child may require the child to be placed in a family that is not of the same religion or race," he told the newspaper. The judge suggested that there is evidence to show that adoptive placements are better for a child than leaving them in a care home. It follows his comments in the same newspaper that unmarried couples deserve property rights if they split. Adoption UK chief executive Jonathon Pearce suggested in the Daily Telegraph that some local authorities are overly fixated on matching children to parents of the same race, warning that this could cause long term damage to a child. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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