Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference In Stock Now

Nearly half of the almost 250,000 children born abroad and adopted into the U.S. since the 1990s have come from China or Russia. Ms. Jacobson examines these adoptions by focusing on a relatively new social phenomenon: the practice by international adoptive parents, mothers in particular, of incorporating aspects of their children's cultures of origin into their families lives