{"id":29793,"date":"2013-03-23T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T23:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29793"},"modified":"2013-03-23T23:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T23:26:02","slug":"the-case-for-transracial-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29793","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Transracial Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Transracial-Adoption-Rita-Simon\/dp\/1879383209\" target=\"_blank\">The Case for Transracial Adoption<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American University Press<br \/>\n1994<br \/>\n150 pages<br \/>\n6 x 0.5 x 9 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-10: 1879383209; ISBN-13: 978-1879383203<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/spa\/faculty\/rsimon.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Rita J. Simon<\/a><\/strong>, University Professor Emerita<br \/>\nDepartment of Justice, Law and Society<br \/>\n<em>American University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.umaryland.edu\/faculty_and_research\/bios\/altstein\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Altstein<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Social Work<br \/>\n<em>University of Maryland, Baltimore<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/law.wisc.edu\/profiles\/msmelli@wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Marygold S. Melli<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law Emerita<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin Law School<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Transracial-Adoption-Rita-Simon\/dp\/1879383209\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51XYRHN5F5L.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This timely study analyzes the issue of adoptions that cross racial and national lines, and assesses their success and appropriateness. The book&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Case for Transracial Adoption American University Press 1994 150 pages 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1879383209; ISBN-13: 978-1879383203 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Howard Altstein, Professor of Social Work University of Maryland, Baltimore Marygold S. Melli, Professor of Law Emerita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1467,8,17,394,4481,20],"tags":[687,14159,14160,14162,14161,2547,12402],"class_list":["post-29793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-american-university-press","tag-howard-altstein","tag-marygold-melli","tag-marygold-s-melli","tag-rita-j-simon","tag-rita-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}