PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Elizabeth Bartholet TI - Commentary: Cultural Stereotypes Can and Do Die: It's Time to Move on With Transracial Adoption DP - 2006 Sep 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 315--320 VI - 34 IP - 3 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/34/3/315.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/34/3/315.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2006 Sep 01; 34 AB - This commentary argues that the Multiethnic Placement Act, designed to combat common cultural stereotypes, provides clear guidance to state child welfare agencies and the mental health professionals that serve them, eliminating any regular consideration of race in the foster and adoptive placement of children. Given recent enforcement action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, those who ignore this guidance act at peril of subjecting state agencies to the significant financial penalties mandated for any violation of the law.