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In Their Parents' Voices Rita Simon

In Their Parents' Voices By Rita Simon

In Their Parents' Voices by Rita Simon


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Sheds light on the issues parents encounter while raising children across racial and cultural lines. This book explores what role race played during years of parenting, what lessons these parents learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others.

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In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees by Rita Simon

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines. These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.

In Their Parents' Voices Reviews

Worthwhile, but the book's true value lies in the chance to meet the parents of the remarkable young adults profiles in its predecessor. -- Judy Stigger Adoptive Families [In Their Parents' Voices] should be part of every placement agency's library and read by every adopting family. -- Linda Katz Families in Society

About Rita Simon

Rita J. Simon is a University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. She has published thirty-seven books and edited nineteen and is currently the editor of Gender Issues.Rhonda M. Roorda works at an educational advocacy organization in Lansing, Michigan, and writes for Fostering Families TODAY and Adoption TODAY magazines.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Children from In Their Own Voices Author's Note Part 2: The Parents John and Marian Pelton James and Alice Bandstra Jim and Kathy Stapert Ron and Dorothy Paul Goff Barbara Tremitiere Nora Anker Marjorie Gray Edson and Judith Bigelow Aaldert and Elisabeth Mennega Rikk Larsen Charles and Pam Adams David and Lola Himrod Ken and Jean Winnie Rodney and Joyce Perry Part 3: Conclusion Afterword Postscript Acknowledgments

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CIN0231141378LN
9780231141376
0231141378
In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees by Rita Simon
Used - Like New
Paperback
Columbia University Press
20071002
240
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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