This timely study analyzes the issue of adoptions that cross racial and national lines, and assesses their success and appropriateness. The book's centerpiece is a comprehensive long-term study of the transracial adoption conducted by Rita Simon and Howard Altstein, the result of twenty years of research and analysis. The authors discuss the case often made against transracial adoption and explain the laws that govern these adoptions.
RITA J. SIMON is Professor of Justice at American University. She has written extensively on law, justice, and societal issues. Among her earlier publications are In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration (Praeger, 1997) and Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, Thieves: Women's Roles in America (Praeger, 1993).