Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types o…
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption pract…
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
Making Families Through Adoption provides a comprehensive look at adoption practices both in the United States and in other cultures, and a general understanding of the practices and ideology of kinship and family. The subject of adoption allows a window into discussions of what…
Making families through adoption
by Riley, Nancy, Van Vleet, Krista E.
fromContemporary family perspectives
This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption pract…
"For Dan and his boyfriend Terry, the odyssey begins at a seminar in Portland where (after rejecting the idea of making a "biokid" with a lesbian couple, a lesbian single, and their straight next-door neighbor) they decide on an "open adoption." The birth mother who selects them…
Discusses adoption in the United States, including its affect on both the parents and the children, adopting older children and teenagers, and the advantages and disadvantages of international adoptions.
Discusses adoption in the United States, including its affect on both the parents and the children, adopting older children and teenagers, and the advantages and disadvantages of international adoptions.
