Research Plan for Family Approaches to Transracial Adoption
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Date
1975
Authors
Stockard, Jean
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Abstract
In 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.
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20 pages
Keywords
social work, multi-ethnic families, family life