Multi-informant Study

Transracial, transnational families understand and transmit cultural socializa-tion messages in ways that differ from same-race families. This study explores the ways in which transracial, transnational adoptive families discuss race and ethnicity and how these family discussions compare to self-reports from adoptive parents and adolescents regarding the level of parental engagement in cultural socialization. Of the 30 families with at least one adolescent-aged child (60 % of the participants were female; average age across the sample was 17.8 years) who was adopted from South Korea, 9 families acknowl-edge racial and ethnic differences, 6 reject racial and ethnic differences, and 15 hold a discrepancy of views. Parents also report significantly greater en-gagement in cultural socialization compared to that revealed in adolescents’ reports of parental engagement. However, only adolescent self-reports of parental engagement in cultural socialization match the qualitative coding of family conversations. at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on September 18, 2016jar.sagepub.comDownloaded fro