This guide helps parents deal with challenges and issues when adopting a child from a different race or culture, and focuses on how racial identity and adoption shape family life. It examines the development of racial identity for people of color and white people, including racism, white privilege, talking with children about race, finding a diverse environment, and handling outsiders' questions and comments; family issues, including strengthening family identity, parenting strategies, birth families, the extended family, siblings, and religious choices and beliefs; issues common to all transracial adoptive families from a developmental perspective; and specific situations and how to deal with them, such as building pride, bilingualism, gay and lesbian families, challenges for specific cultural groups, and the adoption experience. This edition incorporates new research on positive racial identity and multicultural families and reflects recent developments and trends in adoption. Hall, an advocate for adopted children of color who lectures and leads workshops on the topic, and Steinberg are both adoptive mothers in a multiracial family and lead an organization that provides support for adopted children of color. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)