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A highly accessible resource for students and professionals as well as parents, Building the Bonds of Attachment presents a composite case study of one child's developmental course …
A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today.Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of …
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly …
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these …
The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth …
White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptionsparticularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic …
Describes what being a foster mom is really like, the effects of foster care on the whole family, and how the foster care system fails severely abused children. Foster children are …
In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called ';repatriation of anthropology' and by the influence of feminist studies, queer …
Takes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the controversial and disturbing study that tracked the …