Conclusion

Roorda, Rhonda M.

doi:10.7312/columbia/9780231172219.003.0004

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in their voices: black americans on transracial adoption was written from a place of love and support for fostered and adopted children of color raised in white homes, white adoptive parents, nonadopted siblings, extended family members, and the ever-growing transracial adoption community in the United States. My intention is that this book will reach policy makers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of social work and clinical therapy, and communities of color as well as the broader society. Adoption workers and the transracial adoption community have given minimal attention to recruiting and listening to the insightful voices of black Americans on the adoption of black and biracial children by white parents. Even progressive adoption agencies and transracial adoptive families that understand the importance to their families of making connections with the black community have found this difficult to accomplish because of the lack of know-how, access, and urgency. This book is my effort to make the process of integrating transracial adoptive families with people of color easier by tapping the voices of black Americans and including them in the complicated discussion of why love and race matter, especially when raising children across racial and cultural lines. By no means do the stories told by the participants in this book reflect the experiences of all black Americans. But their stories, taken together, do reflect certain experiences common to African Americans, and virtually all have expressed the need to prepare young black and biracial transracial adoptees for the likelihood that they, too, will have these experiences.

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