Promoting Adoptees’ Well-Being in Transracial Adoptive Families

Ellen E. Pinderhughes - The Future of Adoption: Beyond Safety to Well-Being

After a brief overview of adoption today, this paper discusses critical tasks facing adoptive parents of transracially adopted persons (TRAs), what we know about parents’ role and children’s outcomes. The paper concludes with suggestions for what parents can do to better meet the task of supporting healthy identity development.

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