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Related Resources: Transracial/Transcultural Families
Resources for professionals working with families who have adopted or are considering adopting transracially or transculturally.
Adjustments of Transracially and Inracially Adopted Young Adults
Feigelman
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 17(3), 2000
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Follows up on a sample of transracial and inracial children adopted in infancy in the mid-1970s.
Adoption and Race: Articles
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
Resources on transracial adoption issues.
The Adoption History Project: Transracial Adoptions
Adoption History Project at the University of Oregon
Offers an historical perspective on transracial adoptions.
Adoption, Race and Identity: From Infancy to Young Adulthood
Simon & Altstein (2002)
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Findings of a 24-year study of the effect of interracial adoption on adopted children and their adoptive families.
Children of Color in Foster Care and the Multiethnic Placement Act: The Experiences of Families Involved in Transracial and Same Race Adoptions in an Illinois Sample
De Haymes, Blakemore, & Simon (2000)
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Examines the outcomes and service needs of families who transracially adopt children of color, as well as methods for recruiting adoptive parents from minority populations.
Cultural Competence for Transracial Adoptive Parents
Vonk
Social Work, 46(3), 2001
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Provides a conceptual definition of cultural competence for transracial-cultural adoptive parents.
The Ethics of Transracial Adoption
Fogg-Davis (2002)
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Discusses racial solidity, the values inherent in family formation by adoption, and race sensitive theories.
A Guide to the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 as Amended by the Interethnic Provisions of 1996
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1998)
Provisions, common questions, and checklists for implementation.
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Simon & Roorda (2000)
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Interviews with transracial adoptees about their adoption experiences.
Looking After Our Own: The Stories of Black and Asian Adopters
Massiah (Ed.) (2005)
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Designed to give potential Black adopters a realistic picture of what might be involved in adopting a child or children.
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America
Bertelsen & Chevigny (2001)
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Videotape that examines the importance of nurturing racial identity in transracially adopted children.
Protection from Racial Discrimination in Adoption and Foster Care
U.S. Office for Civil Rights (2003)
Includes summaries of recent Office for Civil Rights outreach and technical assistance activities.
Race and Transracial Adoption (PDF - 376 KB)
Hansen (2006)
Explores the history of matching foster care children with adoptive parents with the same physical characteristics, controversies surrounding transracial adoption, and current trends in transracial adoptions.
Racial Identity Issues in Transracial Adoptees
Harris (1997)
Excerpts from a presentation at the First Annual Conference on Culture-Centered Human Services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in Adoption
Freundlich (2000)
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Summarizes research findings, practices, statistical data, and policy perspectives.
Transracial Adoption and the Multiethnic Placement Act (PDF - 53 KB)
National Data Analysis System (2007)
Explores the legislation impacting transracial adoption as well as the outcomes of the children adopted transracially, highlighting the experience of African American children.
Transracial Adoptions
Rosenberg, Adams, & Groza (2001)
In Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption: Bridging the Gap Between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older Children
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Explores the issues of family formation, separation and loss, attachment, and identity formation for infants and older children placed in transracial adoptions.
Transracial Placement in Adoptions With Public Agency Involvement: What Can We Learn From the AFCARS Data?
Hansen & Simon
Adoption Quarterly, 8(2), 2004
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Examines the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on the rate of transracial adoptions from the foster care system.
Transracial and Transcultural Adoption
Written for prospective parents who wish to adopt a child from another race or culture, this factsheet describes how to prepare for transracial or transcultural adoption. Strategies for helping children to develop a strong sense of racial or cultural identity are explained, including confronting racially or ethnically-based comments from other people, celebrating cultural differences and similarities, and exposing the child to his or her culture of origin. Methods for enhancing self-esteem also are discussed.
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