American bastard

American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the life of being a bastard, sandblasting the myth of the “chosen baby.”

Gay fathers, their children, and the making of kinship

Gay Fathers, Their Children and the Making of Kinship’ explores the status of fatherhood when paternity can no longer be tied to procreative sex. It addresses how the anxiety associated with securing the paternal relation is assuaged when the biological anchors that commonly assure paternity are...

In their parents' voices

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and pr...

In their siblings’ voices

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell The...

In their voices

Forthright accounts of the diverse experiences of black men and women who have been involved in transracial adoption professionally or personally.

The adoption plan

The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story.

Transracial and intercountry adoptions

Recounts the day-to-day realities of the transracial and international adoption process.

Unhappy families

Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.

Voices from the silent cradles

In 1990, disturbing television footage emerged showing the inhumane conditions in which children in Romanian institutions were living. Viewers were shocked that the babies were silent. The so-called ‘Romanian orphans’ became subjects of several international research studies. In parallel, Romania...

Voices of the lost children of greece

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, l...

Walking this path together, 3rd edition

Third edition of a successful child welfare text that highlights decolonial and transformative approaches to child welfare practices.

When rain hurts: an adoptive mother's journey with fetal alcohol syndrome