Intercountry Adoptees Tell Their Stories reflects the thoughts and
experiences of adult transracial adoptees. The authors conducted
in-depth interviews in order to understand and examine the adoptees. The
authors conducted in-depth interviews in order to understand and examine
the adoptees' attitudes towards identity, culture, race, and parenting
within a multicultural household. The men and women interviewed in this
study offer the readers a detailed and personal glimpse into their
worlds. They represent a range of positive and negative adoption stories
and describe the complexities of ethnic identity formation. Each
experience related in this volume is unique not only in demographic
characteristics, but in the journey each participant has undertaken in
his or her transition to adulthood and identity formation. What emerges
from the interviews is a broad collection of voices speaking out from
all corners of the country about their adoption.