Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

Rowena Fong is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin and Member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her most recent book is Addressing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Human Services: Multisystemic Approaches. Ruth McRoy holds the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professorship at the Boston College School of Social Work. Her research and writing has focused on such topics as open adoptions, racial identity development, transracial adoptions, and adoptions from foster care, and she is a coauthor of Transracial and Inracial Adoptees: The Adolescent Years, Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections, and Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues.