Stockard, Jean2023-06-142023-06-141975https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2839820 pagesIn response to a growing realization of the need to combat population growth within this country, many observers have suggested adoption as an alternative to biological child bearing. However, at the same time the pool of infants available for adoption in the United States has been decreasing so that fewer infants of the same ethnic-racial background as the potential parents are available for placement in adoptive homes. This has led to an increase in recent years of transracial and transcultural adoptions. That is, white parents, who make up the largest group of adoptive parents, are increasingly adopting children of racial and cultural backgrounds other than their own. (Anderson, 1971) These may be children from minority groups within this country or children left homeless in other lands, especially in Asian countries recovering from the ravages of war. Little, however, is known about the nature of these adoptions, either in the field of social work or in sociology. The purpose of the proposed study is to examine how transracially adopting families handle the multi-ethnic and racial make-up of their families, and how different approaches to this situation affect the development of the children (both biological and adopted) and family life.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USsocial workmulti-ethnic familiesfamily lifeOther