Race Was a Salient Factor in Influencing the Desirability of Potential

Race was a salient factor in influencing the desirability of potential adoptive children because ______.

A) the parents were raised in a time when racism was much more overt and accepted
B) media and government policies advocated against raising children of different races
C) race was conflated with oppositional cultural practices that socialization could not erase
D) babies born in the United States were difficult to adopt