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| List of contributors | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Children and young people in care | 15 |
| 1 | Adoption's rich tapestry unfolded: a family life in the 21st century | 25 |
| 2 | Troubled children and how to place them | 32 |
| 3 | Recruiting parents for hard-to-place children | 39 |
| 4 | It can only get better, and it did! | 45 |
| 5 | Good practice in adoption | 52 |
| 6 | Kinship care: a child in the family | 57 |
| 7 | Attachment theory and children's rights | 60 |
| 8 | 'I'll take her in' | 70 |
| Pt. II | The experience of birth parents | 73 |
| 9 | Audrey and Aline's story | 82 |
| 10 | Lost and found: an adopted person's story | 87 |
| 11 | Letter to a social worker: reflections on mothering | 91 |
| 12 | Adoption and family support: two means in pursuit of the same end | 99 |
| Pt. III | Life after adoption | 107 |
| 13 | Adoption: perspectives from family members | 114 |
| 14 | A truer image | 120 |
| 15 | Avoiding disruption: concurrent planning | 127 |
| 16 | How post-adoption support can make adoption a success | 132 |
| 17 | Talking and telling | 139 |
| 18 | Keeping in touch: a different way of looking at post-adoption contact issues | 147 |
| 19 | With love | 158 |
| Pt. IV | The politics of adoption | 163 |
| 20 | The fiction of permanence | 172 |
| 21 | Adoption from the inside | 179 |
| 22 | Being transracially adopted: what it's really like in the UK | 186 |
| 23 | From China with love | 190 |
| 24 | Rejection and acceptance | 197 |
| 25 | Adoption panels: a critique from within | 202 |
| 26 | Adoption, race and identity | 208 |
| Pt. V | The future of adoption | 215 |
| 27 | Home news and abroad: comparing UK trends elsewhere | 226 |
| 28 | Adoption services in local authorities | 233 |
| 29 | A special focus: the view from the voluntary sector | 240 |
| 30 | Adoption in New Zealand: an international perspective | 246 |
| 31 | Adoption is about people: learning the lessons of experience | 251 |
| Index | 257 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $180.00 | Digital |
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Staci Powell
reviewed Adoption on May 16, 2015
Adoption
A good example of a book that annoyed me in spite of the fact that I agree with the basic premise that open adoption is overall a good choice. The tone is patronising, and there's a large section devoted to the author looking down his nose at women who choose abortion or single motherhood rather than adoption. It was incredibly off-putting. The rest of the book is basically a cheerleading section for open adoption, with a brief chapter that gives lip service to the need for counselling for all parties involved. Dozens of positive "testimonials," often given without even so much as the first name of the person being quoted, with no other evidence given to balance it out. I realise the book was written a quarter of a century ago, which is probably why it's so much in favour of practices which are now considered unnecessarily coercive toward expectant mothers and fathers (extensive pre-birth contact, the presence of the prospective adoptive parents in the delivery room, etc.). The author also refers to expectant parents as birth parents, which was an irritant throughout the book. Birth parents are only termed thus *after* parental rights have been terminated and the adoption is final, not before.
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