"Adoption, Race, and Identity" is a long-range study of the
impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families.
Initiated in 1972, it was continued in 1979, 1984, and 1991.
Cumulatively, these four phases trace the subjects from early
childhood into young adulthood. This is the only extended study of
this controversial subject.
Simon and Altstein provide a broad perspective of the impact of
transracial adoption and include profiles of the families involved
in the study. They explore and compare the experiences of both the
parents and the children. They identify families whose adoption
experiences were problematic and those whose experiences were
positive. Finally, the study looks at the insights the experience
of transracial adoption brought to the adoptive parents and what
advice they would pass on to future parents adopting children from
different racial backgrounds. They include the reflections of those
adopted included in the 1972 first phase, who are now adults
themselves.
This second edition includes a new concluding chapter that
updates the fourth and last phase of the study. The authors were
able to locate 88 of the 96 families who participated in the 1984
study. Bringing together all four phases of this twenty-year study
into one volume gives the reader a richer and deeper understanding
of what the experience of transracial adoption has meant for the
parents, the adoptees, and children born into the families studied.
This landmark work, will be of compelling interest to social
workers, policy makers, and professionals and families involved on
all sides of interracial adoption.
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