interracial adoption

Investigates the process of adopting children internationally and the difficulty would-be parents face in the adoption process.

Explores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues surrounding transgressive interracial relationships.

The author recalls the frustration and red tape involved in adopting a two-year-old Chinese baby.

Atlanta journalist Melissa Fay Greene shares how her and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, adopted five children, one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia, and raised them with their four biological children.

Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only African-American student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.

Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only African-American student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.

Florens, a sixteen-year-old slave on a Virginia plantation is given to a Dutch trader named Jacob Vaark as payment for a debt owed to Vaark by her master, and moves to his small Northern farm where her presence is felt keenly by Vaark's childless wife Rebekka, Native American servant Lina, and Sorrow, a foundling.

Presents various aspects of adoption including interracial adoption, searching for birth parents, and giving up a child for adoption. Also discusses the feelings of the participants, the provisions of the law, possible problems and their solutions, and ways in which adopted people are different or alike from those that are not adopted.