This study explores the family backgrounds and personal motives of 70 families who adopted Indian children from orphanages in the late 1970s and 1980s. Asks what kind of people seek to adopt children of another ethnic group and colour who also are highly likely to have chronic disabilities-physical, emotional, behavioural, intellectual.
This study explores the family backgrounds and personal motives of 70 families who adopted Indian children from orphanages in the late 1970s and 1980s. Asks what kind of people seek to adopt children of another ethnic group and colour who also are highly likely to have chronic disabilities-physical, emotional, behavioural, intellectual.
Subject terms:
intercountry adoption, learning disabilities, motivation, parents, physical disabilities, research ethics, socioeconomic groups, South Asian people, transracial adoption, adoption, adoptive parents, attitudes, child neglect, children, ethics;