Author: Anthony Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134518390
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy are interspersed with those from people with first-hand experience of being adopted, becoming an adoptive parent or giving a child up for adoption. Together, they provide unique insights into a subject that although regularly in the media is often surrounded by prejudice and misconception. Topics covered include: * children and young people in care * trying to adopt * waiting for adoption * life after adoption * the politics of adoption. This accessible text offers a comprehensive view of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. It provides professional and general reader alike with a fully rounded picture of adoption and exposes some of the myths surrounding it.
Adoptions Today
Author: Ann E. Weiss
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761319146
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Offers young adults an in-depth look at the history of adoption while examining the changing policies that have been implemented over time, complete with a look at international, interracial, and interfaith adoptions.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761319146
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Offers young adults an in-depth look at the history of adoption while examining the changing policies that have been implemented over time, complete with a look at international, interracial, and interfaith adoptions.
Adoption
Author: Anthony Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134518390
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy are interspersed with those from people with first-hand experience of being adopted, becoming an adoptive parent or giving a child up for adoption. Together, they provide unique insights into a subject that although regularly in the media is often surrounded by prejudice and misconception. Topics covered include: * children and young people in care * trying to adopt * waiting for adoption * life after adoption * the politics of adoption. This accessible text offers a comprehensive view of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. It provides professional and general reader alike with a fully rounded picture of adoption and exposes some of the myths surrounding it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134518390
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy are interspersed with those from people with first-hand experience of being adopted, becoming an adoptive parent or giving a child up for adoption. Together, they provide unique insights into a subject that although regularly in the media is often surrounded by prejudice and misconception. Topics covered include: * children and young people in care * trying to adopt * waiting for adoption * life after adoption * the politics of adoption. This accessible text offers a comprehensive view of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. It provides professional and general reader alike with a fully rounded picture of adoption and exposes some of the myths surrounding it.
The Politics of Adoption
Author: Kerry O'Halloran
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402091524
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
This book analyses the social and legal functions of adoption in selected societies worldwide, and reviews the current global wave of adoption law reform. The author explores trends such as inter-country adoption, and examines similarities and differences in the experience of many nations. The book also provides a window for testing the presumption that within and between cultures there exists a common understanding of what is meant by adoption.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402091524
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
This book analyses the social and legal functions of adoption in selected societies worldwide, and reviews the current global wave of adoption law reform. The author explores trends such as inter-country adoption, and examines similarities and differences in the experience of many nations. The book also provides a window for testing the presumption that within and between cultures there exists a common understanding of what is meant by adoption.
Adoption in America, 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Imagining Adoption
Author: Marianne Novy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472024949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472024949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Single Parent Adoption
Adoption Nation
Author: Adam Pertman
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
ISBN: 1558327169
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This revised edition of Pertman's award-winning book features updated information on every aspect of adoption and its changing role in American society. Pertman, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and father of two adopted children, offers an unflinching study of adoption policy and processes.
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
ISBN: 1558327169
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This revised edition of Pertman's award-winning book features updated information on every aspect of adoption and its changing role in American society. Pertman, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and father of two adopted children, offers an unflinching study of adoption policy and processes.
Adoption
Author: Barbara A. Moe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598840304
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This compilation of the best thinking about adoption by both historical and current authorities reveals a vital, ever-changing practice affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe. The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history. In colonial America, parents adopted out their unwanted children—those who were "rude, stubborn, and unruly"—to other families. Today, Americans go abroad looking for children to adopt, and have adopted more than a quarter million internationally. Adoption: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition not only traces the development of expert thinking about adoption, it also looks at both sides of the latest controversial issues. Should adoptions be open or closed? Should the government regulate adoptions more closely—or less? This updated second edition offers an international perspective with a new chapter on how countries outside the United States provide adoption services. This work is an indispensable resource for those thinking about adoption or researching its history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598840304
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This compilation of the best thinking about adoption by both historical and current authorities reveals a vital, ever-changing practice affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe. The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history. In colonial America, parents adopted out their unwanted children—those who were "rude, stubborn, and unruly"—to other families. Today, Americans go abroad looking for children to adopt, and have adopted more than a quarter million internationally. Adoption: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition not only traces the development of expert thinking about adoption, it also looks at both sides of the latest controversial issues. Should adoptions be open or closed? Should the government regulate adoptions more closely—or less? This updated second edition offers an international perspective with a new chapter on how countries outside the United States provide adoption services. This work is an indispensable resource for those thinking about adoption or researching its history.
Promoting Adoption and Other Permanent Placements
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Making Families Through Adoption
Author: Nancy E. Riley
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 141299800X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. Adoption allows a window onto discussions of what constitute family or kin, the role of biological connectedness, oversight of parenting practices by the state, and the role of race, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic class in the building of families. The book focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context. While reviewing practices of and issues surrounding adoption, the authors highlight the ways these practices and discussions allow us greater insight into overall practices of kinship and family.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 141299800X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. Adoption allows a window onto discussions of what constitute family or kin, the role of biological connectedness, oversight of parenting practices by the state, and the role of race, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic class in the building of families. The book focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context. While reviewing practices of and issues surrounding adoption, the authors highlight the ways these practices and discussions allow us greater insight into overall practices of kinship and family.