Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions
Title Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions PDF eBook
Author Rowena Fong
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 418
Release 2016-01-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0231540825

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With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, policy, and service requirements relating to white, African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses specific problems faced by adoptive families with children and youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala, and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, and the challenges of gay or lesbian adoptions

Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions
Title Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions PDF eBook
Author Rowena Fong
Publisher
Pages 403
Release 2016
Genre Intercountry adoption
ISBN 9780231172554

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Recounts the day-to-day realities of the transracial and international adoption process.

Adoption Across Borders

Adoption Across Borders
Title Adoption Across Borders PDF eBook
Author Rita James Simon
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 178
Release 2000
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780847698332

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For over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents; African American, Hispanic, and Korean children; and Jewish Stars of David families, among others. This book summarizes their findings and compares them with other studies. It is an invaluable source of data on the number and frequency of transracial and intercountry adoptions and on the attitudes toward them. Moreover, it strongly advocates and demonstrates the positive effects of transracial and intercountry adoptions, countering public policy initiatives that emphasize 'same race' adoption practices.

Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
Title Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption PDF eBook
Author Vilna Bashi Treitler
Publisher Springer
Pages 492
Release 2014-07-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137275235

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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.

Inside Transracial Adoption

Inside Transracial Adoption
Title Inside Transracial Adoption PDF eBook
Author Gail Steinberg
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages 306
Release 2013-05-28
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0857006517

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Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids? How can children gain their new families without losing their birth heritage? How can parents best support their children after placement? Inside Transracial Adoption is an authoritative guide to navigating the challenges and issues that parents face in the USA when they adopt a child of a different race and/or from a different culture. Filled with real-life examples and strategies for success, this book explores in depth the realities of raising a child transracially, whether in a multicultural or a predominantly white community. Readers will learn how to help children adopted transracially or transnationally build a strong sense of identity, so that they will feel at home both in their new family and in their racial group or culture of origin. This second edition incorporates the latest research on positive racial identity and multicultural families, and reflects recent developments and trends in adoption. Drawing on research, decades of experience as adoption professionals, and their own personal experience of adopting transracially, Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg offer insights for all transracial adoptive parents - from prospective first-time adopters to experienced veterans - and those who support them.

The Ethics of Transracial Adoption

The Ethics of Transracial Adoption
Title The Ethics of Transracial Adoption PDF eBook
Author Hawley Fogg-Davis
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 168
Release 2018-10-18
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1501724118

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Transracial adoption is one of the most contentious issues in adoption politics and in the politics of race more generally. Some who support transracial adoption use a theory of colorblindness, while many who oppose it draw a causal connection between race and culture and argue that a black child's racial and cultural interests are best served by black adoptive parents. Hawley Fogg-Davis carves out a middle ground between these positions. She believes that race should not be a barrier to adoption, but neither should it be absent from the minds of prospective adopters and adoption practitioners. Fogg-Davis's argument in favor of transracial adoption is based on the moral and legal principle of nondiscrimination and a theory of race-consciousness she terms "racial navigation." Challenging the notion that children "get" their racial identity from their parents, she argues that children, through the process of racial navigation, should cultivate their self-identification in dialogue with others. The Ethics of Transracial Adoption explores new ground in the transracial adoption debate by examining the relationship between personal and public conceptions of race and racism before, during, and after adoption.

Selling Transracial Adoption

Selling Transracial Adoption
Title Selling Transracial Adoption PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Raleigh
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 251
Release 2018
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1439914788

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"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and counselors. Taking a market approach that treats adoptive parents as consumers and children as commodities, Raleigh brings together interviews with adoption practitioners, participant observation at adoption information sessions, and adoption statistics in order to demonstrate how the downturn in supply of "adoptable honorary white children" (which she defines as Asian and hispanic children) led to the increased popularity of the transracial adoption of foreign-born and biracial black children.