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47 Int'l Soc. Work 5 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk47 and id is 1 raw text is: International Social Work 47(1): 5-6p Sage Publications: London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi DOI: 10.1177/0020872804039403 Editorial Over the last century social work has made a major contribution to the development of skill and knowledge in the field of adoptions. It is an area of knowledge in which social work is the leading profession and in which it has been highly effective. Overall the research in adoption demonstrates that for the most part adoptions are highly successful. In recent years a particular pattern of adoptions has emerged, one that is more than an interesting variation, since it touches on thousands of children and families. This is international adoption. Three of the articles in this issue are concerned with this topic. That by Scott Ryan and Victor Groza is devoted entirely to the topic of a specific area of international adoption, focusing on one country. Two of the others touch on important peripheral issues, cross-culture and cross-racial families and reducing birth rates. The article by Ryan and Groza is important in several ways. It demonstrates the richness of knowledge to be gleaned when care- ful research is carried out. Thus we learn much about the efficacy of adoptions in two different but similar situations: one in which the children were placed with families in their own country and the other where they were placed with families in a different country. The authors are to be commended for the openness with which they point out the limitations of the study and the challenges facing researchers wanting to pursue other components of this important contemporary area, such as sampling, the use of trans- lated instruments, interpreters and variations of cultures. Because there are problems in this kind of research does not mean we should avoid it. Rather we should be encouraged to continue to openly address these challenges and work on refining technique, strategy and sampling. These authors have focused on two countries only, the United States and Romania. But they remind us that there are other parts of the world where similarly large numbers of children are being adopted from one country by parents of another country. These may be defined as cross-cultural and sometimes

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