Rita J. Simon

The case for transracial adoption

Abstract This article describes the rhetoric and goals of groups who have opposed and supported transracial adoption in the United States. It summarizes the current status of statutory and case law bearing on transracial adoption, and it shares the results of a longitudinal study of families who adopted children of a different race. The thrust of the study, which began in 1971, was to assess the racial identities and attitudes of the transracially adopted children and their biological siblings, and to examine the extent to which the family members were committed to each other.

A comparative assessment of public opinion toward immigrants and immigration policies.

This article is part of a larger study of public attitudes toward immigration in seven countries that historically and currently have had different policies and practices vis-a-vis immigration. The countries involved are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and the United States. The time frame for which most of the public opinion data will be reported is from 1970 through 1995. The data have been collected from national surveys that were conducted in each of the countries.

Intercountry adoption : a multinational perspective

Introduction North America Intercountry Adoptions: Experiences of Families in the United States Adoption of Native Children in Canada: A Policy Analysis and a Research Report Western Europe Norway: Intercountry Adoptions in a Homogeneous Country Barbro Saetersdal and Monica Dalen International Adoption in West Germany: A Private Affair The Conditions of 18-25-Year-Old Foreign-Born Adoptees in Denmark Intercountry Adoption Coming of Age in The Netherlands: Basic Issues, Trends, and Developments The Middle East Foreign Adoptions in Israel: Private Paths to Parenthood Selected Bibliography Index

The Woman Ph.d.: A Recent Profile

This article describes the professional characteristics of women, married and unmarried, who have received their doctorates in four major academic divisions between the years 1958 and 1963, and who are employed full time. Such characteristics as type and place of employment, professorial rank, tenure, and salaries are compared against men who have received their doctorates in the same substantive areas and over the same period of time. It also compares productivity, as measured primarily by publications, professional recognition, and identification, among unmarried women, married women, and men with doctorates.

International migration : the female experience

This book is a collection of essays that explores the experiences of immigrant women during the post-World War II period. Its scope is international and its overall aim is to delineate and analyze the social economic political and cultural characteristics that influence female migrants both as immigrants and as women and which may differentiate their experiences from those of male migrants. In past research women have been treated more as migrants wives than as female migrants and their role in the migration process has been deemed less important. All of the essays begin with the premises that women now make up a significant proportion of the total migrating population whatever the cultural group that many of these women are no longer merely followers moving to join a father or husband and that in numerous contexts they contribute significantly to the labor force of the receiving country. The massive increase in the female labor force throughout the world is to a large extent the result of female migration. The 3 main parts of the book are divided into 1) an introduction describing a demographic overview of the international migration of women 2) the labor force participation and policy of female migration and 3) the family adaptation and cultural adjustment among various international female migrants. Cultural differences whether those brought from home or those encountered in the receiving society or a juxtaposition of both shape the ways in which both constraints and opportunities of migrant women are experienced or with which they cope.

American Women and Crime

The topic of women and crime is currently enjoying a vogue, because women, in general, and research related to many aspects of womens lives are now popular topics for research. This article analyzes the relationship be tween the contemporary womans movement, the role of women in crime, and the changing socioeconomic and politi cal statuses of American women. Statistics on female arrest patterns for different types of offenses going back four decades are presented. The changes in womens propensities for committing different types of crimes are discussed and ex planations about why these changes have occurred are offered. Statistics describing American women are compared with female crime data available for some 25 different countries. The extent to which women are victims of various types of offenses is also discussed. In its conclusion, the article offers some prognosis for the short-run future on how American women are likely to participate in criminal ac tivities.

Money Incentives and Family Size A Hypothetical-Question Study

The study seeks to find the influence of money incentives to have more or fewer children. Data was collected from two sources: 1) a 1971 telephone survey of 220 Illinois households taken from listings in the city of Chicago its suburbs and 29 other counties in the state and 2) a 1972 national telephone survey of 409 households. The sample was comprised of married homemakers aged 42 years or younger. The study concluded that in the U.S. money incentives could have a significant effect in inducing people to have more or fewer children especially people with low incomes. Money incentives appear to be more effective for reducing family size than for increasing the number of children in a family.(AUTHORS MODIFIED)

The Work Experience of Undocumented Mexican Women Migrants in Los Angeles.

This article reports the demographic characteristics and labor force participation of undocumented and documented Mexican women immigrants in Los Angeles county. The women were interviewed in their homes, churches, community centers, and places of work; not in detention centers where other previous studies of illegal migrants were conducted.

An Assessment of Racial Awareness, Preference, and Self Identity Among White and Adopted Non-White Children

This article reports levels of racial awareness, racial preferences, and racial identities among non-white children (American Negro, Korean, American Indian), who have been adopted by white families, and their white siblings who have been born into those families. The respondents are all children between the ages of three and eight. The basic question addressed in the research is how similar or different are the reactions of these children compared to those of the same sex, age range, and race who have been reared in typical family settings. The major findings are that black children who are reared in the special setting of multi-racial families do not acquire the ambivalence toward their own race that has been reported among all other groups of young black children and that there are no significant differences in the racial attitudes of any of the categories of children.

If at first you don’t succeed: Review procedures for revised and resubmitted manuscripts

Scholarly manuscripts typically are revised many times prior to publication. Revision has become such an expected part of the manuscript review process that different review procedures have been implemented to deal with the revised manuscript. This article compares analyses of the peer review and editorial decision-making process for first-submission manuscripts and for revised and resubmitted manuscripts to the American Sociological Review (ASR) between 1977 and 1981. For each group of manuscripts we estimate a two-stage path model. These models predict 54 percent of the variance for first submission manuscripts and 80 percent for resubmitted manuscripts. Because the review processes for “R & R” manuscripts are different, we propose three publication strategies for authors considering resubmission.