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ISS/IRC Code	COM-INTERACIAL ENG-002
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Title	Trans-Racial Adoption
Author	SIMON Rita J
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Date published/issue	00-00-1977
Date received	00-00-0000
Place published
Editor
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons 605 Third Ave. New York N.Y. 10016 USA
Distributor
Page	197
Price
ISBN	0-471-79208-X
Type of material	Book
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Document information
Document description	Commentaries Research
Country concerned	UNITED STATES
Index	Substitute-family Interacial Adoption Paps-eligibility Placement Matching Child-interest
Free text	This book addresses the issue of transracial adoption in the USA. Results of the study presented in several sections, it provides: 1) historical background for this practice - from the mid-1960s onward, the scarcity of available white children, and the fact that the number of black children available for adoption far exceeded the supply of black prospective adoptive parents, provoked the discarding of the matching criteria formerly used in adoptions, thus opening the door to transracial adoption (in the 1970s, opposition from Black and Indian groups caused a reversal in this trend); 2) statistical figures and parental responses to questions on transracial adoption, with social profile of families who adopted transracially - reference to Lucille Grow and Deborah Shapiro's study on transracial adoption (1974) - 3) results of study of racial identity, attitudes and awareness of children in the USA. The authors touch on alternatives to transracial adoption, such as "subsidized adoption" and single-parent adoption which would give a child the opportunity to be placed in same-race families.