Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption Book

What does adoption look like from the perspectives of adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents? This is a great collection of essays and stories written by a rich diversity of authors from Western societies and African and Asian cultures, men and women, rich and poor, dated and more recent. Some adoptive parents, adoptees, or birth parents will make the reader furious by their lack of compassion in the case of birth parents forcing their adopted children to adopt a culture much different than their own, or foresight, in the case of teenagers failing to use contraceptives. These stories reveal that among the intimate exchanges in the triad of characters there is not one path an adoptee, adopted parent, or birth parents take.