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Summary: A very important and helpful book, highly recommended.
Review: This book is wonderfully and sensitively written. The reader is encouraged toward meaningful reflection on the child's experience of growing up in an interracial family. Practical advice, soul-searching questions and obvious pleasure in parenting characterize the issues and stories in this book. You owe it to your child and yourself to read this book. Very helpful for adoption professionals as well.
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Summary: Wonderful book, in need of updating
Review: This is still the best book around on the subject of preparing for the challenges of raising internationally (and transracially) adopted children. Register is a graceful writer, and this book is a pleasure to read. That said, the book is badly in need of updating. The majority of international adoptions now take place in China and Russia, areas that weren't open to adoption when this book was written. (I'd also like to see it finally made available in paperback.)
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Summary: Good for parents planning to adopt from Korea
Review: We are planning to adopt a baby from Korea, and I found this book very helpful in making that decision. Much of the author's focus is on Korean adoptions, since she adopted her own two daughters from Korea. I loved reading about the history of Korean adoption. The author also details the types of issues that can arise in a transracial/transcultural adoption: family reactions, prejudice, the feelings of the adoptee, etc. In many ways, I found it sobering and I went from being just plain old excited about our adoption plans to really thoughtful about what it would mean for our family. Adopting internationally is not something to take lightly and you cannot adopt and then "pretend" that the child is your birthchild. Adopting internationally requires a willingness to become a mult-cultural family. This book was very effective in getting me to think about if this is what I wanted. Ultimately, we have decided to go ahead, and I feel more confident and knowledgable since reading this book.
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