Transracial adoptees and their families a study of identity and commitment
Title:
Transracial adoptees and their families a study of identity and commitment
Author:
Simon, Rita J. (Rita James), 1931-
ISBN:
9780313366819
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Publication Information:
New York : Praeger, 1987.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 150 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I; 1 Where We Are Today: Numbers, Practices, and Policies; 2 Recent Court Rulings; PART II; 3 Looking Back at the Families; 4 The Parents' Story; 5 The Children's Account; 6 How the Parents' and Children's Accounts Match Up; 7 Special Families: Problems, Disappointments, Conflicts; 8 Ordinary Families: A Collective Portrait; PART III; 9 Effects of Abortion, Birth Rate, and Lifestyle on Inracial and Transracial Adoptions; 10 Single Parent Adoption: A Continuing Alternative; 11 Intercountry Adoption; Concluding Remarks and Recommendations
Abstract:
Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare. The authors, a sociologist and a social worker, have contributed much to its understanding through a series of studies that began in 1972 of white families that have adopted nonwhite (mostly black) children. This book reports on the latest phase of their research, which was based on interviews with most of the families and adoptees in the original sample. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the adoptees' racial identities and self-esteem, and the long-term effects of transracial adoption on the ado.
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