![]() ![]() International adoption is a controversial matter in countries from which children are coming to the United States, but adoptive families have had little voice as yet in the debate. ![]() The book addresses many central questions about international adoption: why children are in need of adoption outside the country of their birth, why parents choose to adopt from other countries, and how parents and children of very different origins become a "real" family. In rich personal stories drawn from her own experience as the mother of two Korean-born daughters and from interviews with other parents and with adopted children from six to thirty, Cheri Register both affirms the normality of internationally adoptive families and highlights the special challenges they do indeed face. As natural and normal as it feels to them to be together, such families are often asked to explain their obvious difference. ![]() The question "Are those kids yours?" has a familiar ring to parents who have adopted children from South Korea, India, Colombia, the Philippines, and other countries. ![]()
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