Child Welfare and Transracial Adoption

Outcomes of Transracial Adoption

In the United States, the first transracial adoption placements in substantial numbers were of Japanese and Chinese children following World War II. During the 1950s, after the Korean War, Korean children were adopted by American families in large numbers. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, more than 10,000 African-American children were adopted by white parents. Subsequently, however, this pra...

Transracial Adoption and the Federal Adoption Subsidy

Attitudes towards Transracial Adoption: Measures and Correlates

Scholars know little about attitudes toward transracial adoption, how to measure them, or why people hold the attitudes they do. We measure implicit and explicit attitudes towards transracial adoption. Explicit measures generally find support; implicit measures do not. We also look at correlations between transracial adoption attitudes and racial attitudes. These correlations vary for implicit ...

Comment on the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study

Weinberg, Scarr, and Waldman (1992) presents follow-up data on their study of black, mixed-race, and white children adopted by white families. In retrospect, they summarize their conclusions from their initial assessment of the performance of the adoptees as indicating that "putative genetic racial differences do not account for a major portion of the IQ performance difference between racial gr...

Recent developments in the transracial adoption debate.

This article places the controversy over transracial adoption (TRA) in its historical context and analyzes recent developments in the law governing TRA policy. Because unfounded "authority" from the field of mental health infuses current debate, the authors alert psychiatrists to two powerful forces that improperly influence today's legal arena: community preference for same-race families and b...