Kontinent 2. Edited by Vladimir Maximov. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1977. x, 246 pp. $3.95, paper. - Kontinent 3. Edited by Vladimir Maximov. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1978. xii, 225 pp. $3.95, paper.

Adult transracial and inracial adoptees: Effects of race, gender, adoptive family structure, and placement history on adjustment outcomes.

“…Transracial adoptions are known to have occurred at least as far back as 1944 (California Adoption Survey Committee, 1946) and have been studied for almost three decades (Bagley & Young, 1979; Barth & Berry, 1988; Brooks et al, in press; Falk, 1970; Fanshel, 1972; Feigelman & Silverman, 1983, 1984; Grow & Shapiro, 1974; Ladner, 1977; McRoy & Zurcher, 1983; Robertson, 1974; Shireman & Johnson, 1988; Simon & Altstein, 1977, 1982, 1987; Tizard, 1977; Zastrow, 1977), but child welfare professionals continue to disagree about their impact on adoptees' adjustment. Those opposed to establishing transracial adoption as a general practice rule are concerned primarily about its impact on adoptees' overall well-being, including adjustment to adoption, self-esteem, and ethnoracial identity (Andujo, 1988; Chestang, 1972; Chimezie, 1975; DeBerry, Scarr, & Weinberg, 1996; McRoy, Zurcher, Lauderdale, & Anderson, 1982; Rosenthal, Groze, Curiel, & Westcott, 1991).…”

What do Children Need from Parents?

“…Recent research has shown (Chambers 1989) that black children wait longer for placement than white ones and that in most cases young children (under five) wait between six months and 30 months for black parents. Ladner (1977) a black American sociologist in her study of 136 trans-racially adopted children was forced reluctantly to conclude that the children had not acquired racial ambivalence and that many whites can rear emotionally healthy black children.…”