ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at discussing nontraditional adoption. It considers the specific stresses and factors that mediate the coping of parents who adopt transracially, adopt with biological children, adopt more than one child and who adopt special needs children. Thirty-seven per cent of the respondents in the structured questionnaire study adopted children transracially. Twenty-eight per cent of the respondents adopted while having their own biological child(ren). Nineteen per cent of the respondents adopted more than one child. These respondents were similar to those parents who have biological children in that they also saw similarities in intelligence among their children. Most parents who adopted older children at the age of 45 or above, expressed that they could handle child discipline all right. Nineteen per cent of the respondents adopted more than one child. As adoptive parents, almost all of them agreed to let their children develop in ways that fit them without comparing them to each other.
