In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories Book

If you are in a transracial family or thinking about becoming one through adoption, this is a MUST READ for you. Here is our review from a previous blog post:

We have read a great book called In Thier Own Voices by Simon and Rhoorda. It is a compilation of testimonies from transracially adopted children and has many statistics comparing these children with children raised by same race parents. Here are some of the findings in this book:

* The quality of parenting was more important than whether the black child had been inracially or transracially adopted
* Tranracial adoptive parents experience some challenges but all parents successfully met those challenges
* Transracial adoptees (TRAs) are more likely to be attached to their parents than same-race adoptees
* TRAs developed comparably strong senses of black identity
* 90% of the TRAs said it made little to no difference that their siblings were of a different racial background
* When asked who they would turn to with a serious personal problem, the TRAs were more likely to turn to their parents or siblings than birth children or white adopted children