Being adopted and becoming a parent are both highly significant events in the life course.
How adopted people represent adoption and parenthood in their life stories is the focus of …

This research presents an innovative approach to revolutionize IoT service development in
medical education, specifically designed to empower individuals with physical disabilities …

A significant body of research examines ethnic‐racial socialization among families of color,
yet rarely investigates the influence of youths' phenotype (eg, skin color) on ethnic‐racial …

Race, ethnicity, and culture are central to human development and family life. However,
early research pathologized these influences on African Americans. Pioneering scholars …

Objectives: 2020 was marked by two racial pandemics—COVID-19-related attacks against
Asians and the police brutality against Blacks that spurred the resurgence of the Black Lives …

Transracial/transcultural adoption is defined as a child of one race or ethnic group placed
with parent (s) of a different race or ethnic group. An estimated 2 million children in the …

Narratives from adult adopted individuals highlight their complex relationships with their
adoptive families. The range of these relationships, including cutoffs and estrangement, has …

Adoptive families must navigate public discourse about adoption. This study examined how
transracial adoptive (TRA) and same-race adoptive (SRA) families communicated to their …

Intercountry adoptees (ICAs) face life-long challenges within their ecological contexts that
warrant exploration. Adoptees' visible adoptions make them susceptible to …

Transracial adoption (TRA) represents the largest number of non‐disclosed adoptions in
South Africa but remains under researched. This exploratory research investigates practices …