Can adoptive homes be found for non-white children? Will the
children and their new families be happy together though of
different race? Will they feel like a family? Originally published
in 1970, this book is an account of a four-year project in which
International Social Service of Great Britain joined with Bedford
College, London University, to provide a first-class adoption
service for babies born in Britain of diverse racial origins, and
to study the outcome of the adoptions. In addition, a survey sought
to determine the number of these children needing adoption homes,
and a nationwide Adoption Resource Exchange was established to
co-ordinate the efforts of the numerous agencies seeking parents
for them. The author examines the project's experience of
interracial adoption and relates it to all good adoption practice.
This title was a welcome addition to the literature on adoption at
the time. It would have been indispensable to social work
practitioners and to students and lecturers on social work courses,
but it was more than a handbook for those professionally involved.
The book is well-informed and written with style and compassion:
many readers will be fascinated by the way in which children of
Asian, African, West-Indian and mixed parentage became integrated
into English families in spite of racial differences. It is a
success story. Today it can be read in its historical context. This
book is a re-issue originally published in 1970. The language used
is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the
Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
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