The Basics of Adoption
A Guide for Building Families in the U.S. and Canada
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2006
304 pages
978-0-313-05487-7 (ISBN)
Description
With about 70,000 domestic and international adoptions each year in the United States and Canada, adoption remains a major means of building families in both countries. Its continued success can be inferred not only from the yearly statistics, but from a report issued in 2003 by the U.S. Census Bureau. To the surprise of many, the report announced the existence of 1.6 million adopted children in the U.S. under the age of eighteen. Written by a former social worker who has placed hundreds of children in foster and adoptive homes and a clinical psychologist who has counseled adopted children and parents, this book offers a comprehensive look at the adoption process by merging the best of social work with the best of psychology.Adoption can be a frustrating and intimidating undertaking for the unprepared. This guide provides prospective adoptive parents with the insider information that they need to navigate the process-and it provides students with the sort of expert opinion that they need to grasp the academic theory they receive in the classroom.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-313-05487-7 (9780313054877)
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James L. Dickerson | Mardi Allen
The Basics of Adoption
A Guide for Building Families in the U.S. and Canada
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09/2006
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Starting the Adoption Process
- Chapter Two What They Want to Know about You
- Chapter Three They Gave You a Child: Now What?
- Chapter Four International Adoptions
- Chapter Five Adoption in Canada
- Chapter Six Raising an Adopted Child
- Chapter Seven Single-Parent Adoptions
- Chapter Eight Gay and Lesbian Adoptions
- Chapter Nine Adoption Agencies in the United States and Canada
- Bibliography
- Index
