Auteur: Rita Simon

The late Rita J. Simon was a University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. She published thirty-seven books and edited nineteen and was the editor of Gender Issues.Rhonda Roorda was adopted into a white family in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. She is the recipient of the 2010 Judge John P. Steketee Adoption Hero Award from the Adoptive Family Support Network (MI). In 2017, Rhonda was awarded the Friend of Children and Youth Award from the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC). She is coordinator of financial and support services at a nonprofit educational advocacy organization in Lansing, Michigan. She writes for Fostering Families TODAY and Adoption TODAYmagazines.