The Adjustment of Black Children Adopted by White Families

1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 529-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold R. Silverman ◽  
William Feigelman
Keyword(s):  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
White Families ◽  
The Many ◽  
Age At Placement

A study has found that, initially, transracially placed children are more maladjusted than their inracially adopted peers. Yet, when age at placement is taken into account, the differences disappear. Thus, transracial adoption may continue to be a viable option for the many nonwhite children awaiting placement.

The New Family Ideal for Korean Black Adoption

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-186
Author(s):  
Kori A. Graves
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Interracial Couples ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
White Families ◽  
New Family ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Political Implications

Many of the African American non-military families that adopted Korean black children did not conform to the gender and race conventions that child welfare officials desired in adoptive families. Often, these families included wives that worked, and would continue to work, outside of their homes even after they adopted a Korean black child. A number of these adoptive families were also interracial couples or they lived in interracial neighborhoods. Adoptive families that included interracial couples and working wives forced some social workers and child welfare officials to reframe these family patterns as ideal for Korean black children. The reforms that some social workers made to increase adoptions of Korean black children by African American and interracial couples also informed their responses to the small number of white families that adopted Korean black children. Agencies affiliated with International Social Service frequently emphasized the international political implications of Korean transnational adoptions because they understood transracial and transnational adoptions to be liberal and antiracist endeavors. However, many of the African American and interracial families that pursued transnational adoptions did not base their adoptions on political motives. Instead, they imagined a kinship with Korean black children because of the racism the encountered in Korea.

Black children adopted by White families.

1977 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 678-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Black Children ◽  
White Families

IQ test performance of Black children adopted by White families.

1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 726-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Scarr ◽  
Richard A. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Black Children ◽  
White Families ◽  
Iq Test

Analyzing Ethical Conflict in the Transracial Adoption Debate: Three Conflicts Involving Community

Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Farrell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Ethical Conflict ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This essay explores ethical conflicts underlying the discourse of the policy debate about transracial adoption, focusing on the adoption of Black children by whites. Three underlying conflicts are analyzed, namely, the values of equality versus community, interracial community versus mukiculturalism, individuality versus racial-ethnic community. The essay concludes with observations on multicultural families.

scholarly journals Transracial Adoption of Black Children: An Economic Analysis

Baby Markets ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
Mary Eschelbach Hansen ◽  
Daniel Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Black Children
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