- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Columbia University Press (June 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0231118287
- ISBN-13: 978-0231118286
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 671 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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In Their Own Voices sheds light on a very complex and controversial debate. The debate would be richer and wiser if those who seek to defend or condemn transracial adoption read this book first. It should be required reading for anyone who is thinking of adopting or has adopted a child from another race. -- Barbara Davidson, civil rights advocate and adoptive mother
No one has contributed more useful empirical research on interracial adoption than Professor Rita Simon and her associates. In Their Own Voices is an important supplement to that scholarly tradition that will further illuminate one of the most interesting corners of race relations in American life. The stories told in this collection are fascinating, poignant, enlightening, inspiring. They deserve a broad audience. -- Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
This book's suggestion that American families find it easier to adopt children from other countries than to adopt transracially within this country is saddening. This is particularly so when we see hundreds of black children moved from one foster home to another. Those of us who believe in transracial adoptions owe Ms. Simon and Ms. Roorda a continuing debt of gratitude. -- Former Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, author of the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994
This much needed study brings hard facts and personal experiences to bear on an important subject too often dominated by dogmas and arrogance. It is a breath of fresh air in the fetid atmosphere of racial politics. -- Thomas Sowell, Stanford University
No one has contributed more useful empirical research on interracial adoption than Professor Rita Simon and her associates. In Their Own Voices is an important supplement to that scholarly tradition that will further illuminate one of the most interesting corners of race relations in American life. The stories told in this collection are fascinating, poignant, enlightening, inspiring. They deserve a broad audience. -- Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
This book's suggestion that American families find it easier to adopt children from other countries than to adopt transracially within this country is saddening. This is particularly so when we see hundreds of black children moved from one foster home to another. Those of us who believe in transracial adoptions owe Ms. Simon and Ms. Roorda a continuing debt of gratitude. -- Former Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, author of the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994
This much needed study brings hard facts and personal experiences to bear on an important subject too often dominated by dogmas and arrogance. It is a breath of fresh air in the fetid atmosphere of racial politics. -- Thomas Sowell, Stanford University
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Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds. How does the experience affect their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital partners, and their lifestyles? In addition to interviews, the book includes overviews of both the history and current legal status of transracial adoption.
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Adoption is a legal process in which a child's legal rights and duties toward his natural parents are terminated and similar rights and duties are created toward the child's adoptive parents. Read the first page
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Perspective of Adult adoptees is very helpful,
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This review is from: In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
This book is important for adoptees, adoptive parents and grandparents, as well as others who are loving and parenting across racial lines. While this is not a "how to" book, it is clear from the adoptees' stories what they believe their adoptive parents did well and what they wish their adoptive parents had done differently. It stresses the difficult issues but also reflects that transracial adoption can and does work. It helps parents to understand the importance of nurturing a relationship between the adoptive family and the adoptees' ethnic communities.
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Best book for Adoptive Parents,
By Jaclyn A. Pilkington "Mom to an adopted son f... (Cambridge, ON Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
This book was by far the most resourceful book that I've read. I feel like I've read a million books about adoption and this book is by far my favourite. It is so great to hear first hand experiences from the adoptees. They are not afraid to share what their parents should have done differently and also share about what their parents did that helped them. By far the most imformative book
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Finally I am not alone,
By Khatrina (Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this book and it let me see that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Becaue I am adopted in a white home and Birracial the times have been hard however, with this book I feel like I am not the only one in that kind of situation. This book has helped me discover the true me, and also helped me to realize that if I am not true to myself I am only hurting myself. I wish there were more books like this on the market, and I would recommend it to anyone who is adopted or raising a minority child in a white home.
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