Guides & Bibliographies

This bibliography offers selected research resources about child adoption and the social policies. The selections listed below might aid students in social work, anthropology, and sociology courses as they attempt to understand the complex issues resulting from adoption choices.

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Academic Articles

A many of the articles in this section require the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing of each full-text online article. The items in this section are available for UT Arlington faculty and students by simply clicking on the links under each article citation.
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"Adaptation to parenthood during the post-adoption period: a review of the literature."

By Katherine McKay, Lori E. Ross, and Abbie E. Goldberg.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 2, (April, 2010), pp. 125-144.
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"Adjustment of adolescent adoptees: the role of age of adoption and exposure to pre-adoption stressors."

By Ilana Gleitman and Riki Savaya.
Children and Youth Services Review. Vol. 33, No. 5, (May, 2011), pp. 758-766.
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"Adoption agency perspectives on lesbian and gay prospective parents: a national study."

By David M. Brodzinsky, Charlotte J. Patterson, and Mahnoush Vaziri.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 5, No. 3, (March, 2002), pp. 5 - 23.
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"Adoption as a solution to intractable parenting problems: Evidence from two English studies."

By David Quinton, and Julie Selwyn.
Children and Youth Services Review. Vol. 31, No. 10, (October, 2009), pp. 1119-1126.
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"Adoption preparedness, cultural engagement, and parental satisfaction in intercountry adoption."

By Charlotte Paulsen and Joseph R. Merighi.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 1, (January, 2009), pp. 1 - 18.
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"Adoptive family relationships and healthy adolescent development: a risk and resilience analysis."

By Kathleen L. Whitten and Scott R. Weaver.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 3 & 4, Special Issue: The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: A New Data Resource. (July, 2010), pp. 209-226.
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"Becoming lesbian adoptive parents: an exploratory study of lesbian adoptive, lesbian birth, and heterosexual adoptive parents."

By Lynn M. Shelley-Sireci and Claudia Ciano-Boyce.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 1, (September, 2002), pp. 33 - 43.
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"Behavioral adjustment of adopted chinese girls in single-mother, lesbian-couple, and heterosexual-couple households."

By Tony Xing Tan and Jennifer Baggerly.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 171 - 186.
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"A Comparative study of child welfare adoptions with other types of adopted children and birth children."

By Jeanne A. Howard, Susan Livingston Smith, and Scott D. Ryan.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 3, (October, 2004), pp. 1 - 30.
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"Comparing the ethnic identity and well-being of adopted Korean Americans with immigrant/U.S.-born Korean Americans and Korean international students."

By Richard M. Lee, Andrea Bora Yun, Hyung Chol Yoo, and Kim Park Nelson.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 1, (January, 2010), pp. 2-17.
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"Cultural socialization practices in domestic and international transracial adoption."

By M. Elizabeth Vonk, Jaegoo Lee, and Josie Crolley-Simic.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 3 & 4, Special Issue: The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: A New Data Resource. (July, 2010), pp. 227-247.
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"The Development of adoption law."

By Alice Bussiere.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 1, No. 3, (March, 1998), pp. 3 - 25.
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"Early and late stage adolescence: adopted adolescents' attachment to their heterosexual and lesbian/gay parents."

By Stephen Erich, Sharon K. Hall, Heather Kanenberg, and Kim Case.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 152 - 170.
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"An Evaluation of gay/lesbian and heterosexual adoption."

By Paige Averett, Blace Nalavany, and Scott Ryan.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, Nos. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 129 - 151.
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"The Experiences of gay men and lesbians in becoming and being adoptive parents."

By Suzanne Brown, Susan Smalling, Victor Groza, and Scott Ryan.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, Nos. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 229 - 246.
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"Exploring motivations to adopt."

By Karin Malm and Kate Welt.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 3 & 4, Special Issue: The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: A New Data Resource. (July, 2010), pp. 185-208.
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"Family outings: disclosure practices among adopted youth with gay and lesbian parents."

By Mark Gianino. Abbie Goldberg, and Terrence Lewis.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 205 - 228.
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"Foster parents as a critical link and resource in international adoptions from Guatemala."

By Judith L. Gibbons, Samantha L. Wilson, and Alicia M. Schnell.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 2, (April, 2009), pp. 59 - 77.
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"Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children."

By Linda van den Driesa, Femmie Juffer, Marinus H. van IJzendoorna, and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg.
Children and Youth Services Review. Vol. 31, No. 3, (March, 2009), pp. 410-421.
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"The Impact of previous type of abuse and sibling adoption upon adoptive families."

By Stephen Erich and Patrick Leung.
Child Abuse & Neglect. Vol. 26, No. 10, (October, 2002), pp. 1045-1058.
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"Influence of age on transracial foster adoptions and its relation to ethnic identity development."

By Joshua B. Padilla, Jose H. Vargas, and H. Lyssette Chavez.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 1, (January, 2010), pp. 50-73.
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"Initial validation of the Open Adoption Scale: measuring the influence of adoption myths on attitudes toward open adoption."

By Donna Brown, Scott Ryan, and Janet Therese Pushkal.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 10, No3. 3 & 4, (July, 2008), pp. 179 - 196.
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"Lesbian and gay adoption."

By Annette R. Appell.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 4, No. 3, (March, 2001), pp. 75 - 86.
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"Making the decision: factors influencing gay men's choice of an adoption path."

By Jordan Downing, Hannah Richardson, Lori Kinkler, and Abbie Goldberg.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 247 - 271.
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"The Path to adoption for children of color."

By Stephen A. Kapp, Thomas P. McDonald, Kandi L. Diamond.
Child Abuse & Neglect. Vol. 25, No. 2, (February, 2001), pp. 215 - 229.
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"Policy, practice, and personal narratives: experiences of LGBTQ people with adoption in Ontario, Canada."

By Lori E. Ross, Rachel Epstein, Scott Anderson, and Allison Eady.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, Nos. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 272 - 293.
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"Pre-adoptive child sexual abuse as a predictor of moves in care, adoption disruptions, and inconsistent adoptive parent commitment."

By Blace A. Nalavany, Scott D. Ryan, Jeanne A. Howard, and Susan Livingston Smith.
Child Abuse & Neglect. Vol. 32, No. 12, (December, 2008), pp. 1084 - 1088.
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"Recent developments in lesbian and gay adoption law."

By Annette R. Appell.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 1, (January, 2004), pp. 73 - 84.
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"Returning to China: the experience of adopted Chinese children and their parents."

By Iris Chin Ponte, Leslie Kim Wang, and Serena Pen-Shian Fan.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 2, (April, 2010), pp. 100-124.
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"Reunions of adoptees who have met both birth parents: post-reunion relationships and factors that facilitate and hinder the reunion process."

By Nola L. Passmore and Judith A. Feeney.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 2, (April, 2009), pp. 100 - 119.
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"The Role of heritage camps in identity development among Korean transnational adoptees: a relational dialectics approach."

By Tracey H. Randolph and Mellisa Holtzman.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 2, (April, 2010), pp. 75-99.
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"Transracial adoption by lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples: who completes transracial adoptions and with what results?"

By Rachel H. Farr and Charlotte J. Patterson.
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, (July, 2009), pp. 187 - 204.
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"The Well-being of U.S. children adopted from foster care, privately from the United States and Internationally."

By Sharon Vandivere and Amy McKlindon .
Adoption Quarterly. Vol. 13, No. 3 & 4, Special Issue: The National Survey of Adoptive Parents: A New Data Resource. (July, 2010), pp. 157-184.
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Academic Books and Book Chapters

The UT Arlington Library has many books that deal with adoption issues, and if you do not see anything useful on this selected list, then searching the UT Arlington Library's online catalog, PULSe <pulse.uta.edu> might be a useful research strategy. Researchers can ask questions at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the UT Arlington Central Library, or call my cell phone at: (817) 675-8962 or email me at: <dillard@uta.edu>.

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"Abuse and neglect, foster drift, and the adoption alternative."

By Elizabeth Bartholet.
Chapter In: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.
Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging.

By Eleana Jean Kim.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
"Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea's "economic miracle," adoption became an institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South Korean state. Since the 1990s, as children have continued to leave the country for adoption to the West, a growing number of adult adoptees have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers, adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U.S., Europe, and South Korea, as well as on observations at international adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and government-sponsored motherland tours." - (publisher's description)
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Adoptees Come of Age: Living within Two Families.

By Ronald J. Nydam.
Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, ©1999.
Series: Counseling and Pastoral Theology.
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Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.

Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
"Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility. "Adopting after Infertility" is an accessible and informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that professionals working with adopters and the adopters themselves face when going through the adoption process and the impact of infertility on their experiences. The book includes chapters on the effects of infertility, why people may choose adoption and the assessment and preparation process. It also covers what an Adoption Panel needs to know about the prospective parents, the experiences of those coming to adoption from minority communities or when living with health conditions and post-adoption support needs. Personal accounts by people who have experienced adopting after infertility are included throughout the book. This book will be essential reading for professionals and academics from a range of disciplines including social work, psychology, health, mental health and counselling. It will also be invaluable to students studying for post-qualifying awards." - (publisher's description)
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Adoption and Assisted Reproduction.

By Madelyn Freudnlich.
Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, ©2001.
Series: Adoption and Ethics; v. 4.
"The growing use of assisted reproduction, including sperm donation, gamete donation, and surrogate motherhood, has raised a number of ethical issues in common with adoption. These issues include the parties' legal and social roles, anonomity, and concerns related to the growing role of money and power of market forces in each area. This book reviews not only the available literature, but the wide range and outcomes of current case law and statutes. This book provides the foundation upon which to base policy and practice in this evolving area of adoption practice." (publisher's description)
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"Adoption and infertility: the role of the adoption panel."

By Jenny Gwilt.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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"Adoption data and statistical trends."

By Frank Biafora and Dawn Esposito.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives.

By E. Wayne Carp.
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, ©2002.
"Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices religion and the reform of adoption and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come." (publisher's description)
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Adoption in the Roman World.

By Hugh Lindsay.
Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
"Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian." - (publisher's description)
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Adoption in the United States: A Reference for Families, Professionals, and Students.

By Martha J. Henry and Daniel Pollack.
Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books, ©2009.
"Navigating the complex U.S. system of adoption is no easy feat. Don't go it alone! Educate yourself with this invaluable guide. This is the only comprehensive book that includes information on both the medical and health aspects of adoption and the different laws and procedures regarding adoption for each state. The authors provide a consolidated picture of the regulations for intercountry adoptions in addition to those for adoption from public foster care and domestic infant adoption. This book is a must read prospective parents, adoption professionals, educators, and students." (publisher's description)
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Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.

Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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"Adoption of adults."

By Vern L. Bullough.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Adoption: practices and regulations."

By Fiona MacCallum.
Chapter In: Women's Reproductive Rights.
Edited by Heather Widdows, Idziar Alkorta Idiakez, and Aitziber Emaldi Cirión.
Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series: Women's Rights in Europe.
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"The Adoption process."

By Kevin P. McGarry.
Chapter In: Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad.
By Kevin P. McGarry.
New York, NY: Harrington Park Press, ©2003.
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"Adoption reform, orphan trains, and child saving, 1851-1929."

By Marilyn Irvin Holt.
Chapter In: Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.
Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
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"Adoptive families."

By Cheryl Rampage, Marina Eovaldi, Cassandra Ma, and Catherine Weigel-Foy.
Chapter In: Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity, 3rd edition.
Edited by Froma Walsh.
New York, NY: Guilford Press, ©2003.
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"Adoptive identity: how contexts within and beyond the family shape developmental pathways."

By Harold D. Grotevant, Nora Dunbar, Julie K. Kohler, and Amy M. Lash Esau.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Adverse pre-adoption experiences and psychological outcomes."

By Michael Rutter.
Chapter In: Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
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"Africa and adoption."

By Alice K. Johnson Butterfield and Tenagne Alemu.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Aski Awasis = Children of the Earth: First Peoples Speaking on Adoption.

Edited by Jeannine Carrière.
Black Point, NS, Canada: Fernwood Pub., ©2010.
"A celebration of the work of Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta, this collection of essays describes the agency's bold new model that integrates First Peoples' adoption practices with provincial adoption laws and regulations. Now expecting closure to the long debate in Canada over adoption of Aboriginal children into non-Aboriginal families, the authors provide stories of good and bad adoptions over the years-and recommend ways to implement the new policies and practices." - (publisher's description)
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"Assessing infertile couples for adoption: just what does 'coming to terms with infertility' mean?"

By Marilyn Crawshaw.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building Secure New Lives.

By Liza Bingley Miller and Arnon Bentovim.
Abingdon, England; New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
"Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance and practical advice on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support." (publisher's description)
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"Australia and New Zealand: the experience of indigenous populations."

By Dennis Miller.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Baby farming."

By Priscilla Ferguson Clement.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Beyond adopted/non-adopted comparisons."

By Jesus Palacios and Yolanda Sanchez-Sandoval.
Chapter In: Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
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"Birth fathers."

By Kevin M. Green.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Birth mothers and imaginary lives."

By Laurel Kendall.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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"Birth mothers and subsequent children: the role of personality traits and attachment history."

By Mary J. Carr.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Birth parents in adoption: using research to inform practice."

By Amanda L. Baden and Mary O'Leary Wiley.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America.

By Sandra Patton.
New York, NY: New York University Press, 2000.
"Through in-depth interviews with adult transracial adoptees, as well as with social workers in adoption agencies, Sandra Patton, herself an adoptee, explores the social construction of race, identity, gender, and family and the ways in which these interact with public policy about adoption. Patton offers a compelling overview of the issues at stake in transracial adoption. She discusses recent changes in adoption and social welfare policy which prohibit consideration of race in the placement of children, as well as public policy definitions of 'bad mothers' which can foster coerced aspects of adoption, to show how the lives of transracial adoptees have been shaped by the policies of the U.S. child welfare system.
Neither an argument for nor against the practice of transracial adoption, BirthMarks seeks to counter the dominant public view of this practice as a panacea to the so-called "epidemic" of illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle class with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those directly involved, shedding light on the ways in which Black and multiracial adoptees articulate their own identity experiences." (publisher's description)
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Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice.

By Christine Ward Gailey.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series; Book 22.
"Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters, adoptees, birth parents, and agents within and across borders. Interviews with white and African-American adopters, adoption social workers, and adoption lawyers, combined with her long-term participant-observation in adoptive communities, inform her analysis of how adopters' beliefs parallel or diverge from the dominant assumptions about kinship and family. Gailey demonstrates that the ways adoptive parents speak about their children vary across hierarchies of race, class, and gender. She shows that adopters' notions about their children's backgrounds and early experiences, as well as their own "family values," influence child rearing practices. Her extensive interviews with 131 adopters reveal profoundly different practices of kinship in the United States today." - (publisher's description)
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"Canadian adoption practices."

By Michael P. Grand.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy."

By Kay Johnson.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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"A Child at last: adoption after infertility."

By Anthea Hendry and Penny Netherwood.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.

Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
"Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary research. Too often, however, birth parents, adoptive parents and foster parents, social workers, and the children themselves have been either ignored or demonized. This authoritative and accessible work is the first comprehensive introductory resource that gives a fuller portrait of the many individuals and groups that have contributed to the perceptions of what children are in need of care. Also discussed is the role of orphanages, the primary institution for children without parents as well as a stopgap measure for poor children needing temporary care. Divided into three sections, original essays review the practice of adoption, orphanage placement, and foster care from the colonial period to the present day. Selected primary documents, including materials by children, as well as an in-depth bibliography section, provide crucial information and insight for high school and college students. Social workers, journalists, and others will also find much value in this historical overview and guide. Star contributors include Elizabeth Bartholet, Marilyn Irvin Holt, Martha Satz, and Claudia Nelson." (publisher's description)
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Children of Intercountry Adoptions in School: A Primer for Parents and Professionals.

By Ruth Lyn Meese.
Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
"Children of intercountry adoption have complex histories that place them at high risk for difficulty or failure in school. Teachers and other school professionals rarely know how to test them, teach them, or meet their needs. This volume explains those needs and offers guidelines and suggestions for maximizing the educational performance of these children and helping them to meet their potential." (publisher's description)
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The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru.

By Jessaca B. Leinaweaver.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Series: Latin America Otherwise.
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"Civil rights, adoption rights: domestic adoption and foster care, 1970 to the present."

By Martha Satz and Lori Askeland.
Chapter In: Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.
Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
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Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging.

By Mark C. Jerng.
Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
"Transracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its complex implications. In Claiming Others, Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption to the early nineteenth century, revealing its surprising centrality to American literature, law, and social thought.
Jerng considers how adoption makes us rethink the parent-child bond as central to issues of race and nationality, showing the ways adoption also speaks to broader questions about our history and identity. He analyzes adoption through a diverse set of texts, including the 1851 Massachusetts statute that established adoption as we understand it today, early adoption manuals, the New York Times blog Relative Choices, and the work of John Tanner, Lydia Maria Child, William Faulkner, Charles Chesnutt, Chang-rae Lee, and David Henry Hwang.
Imaginative and social practices of transracial adoption have shaped major controversies, Jerng argues, from Native American removal to slavery to cold war expansionism in the twentieth century and the contemporary global market in children. As Claiming Others makes clear, understanding adoption is crucial not just to understanding the history between races in the United States, but also the meaning of emancipation and the role of family in nationhood." - (publisher's description)
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Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption: Bridging the Gap between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older Children, Revised and updated.

Edited by Victor Groza and Karen F. Rosenberg.
Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, ©2001.
"Experts representing practitioners, researchers, advocates, and triad members, explore the similarities and differences between adoptees placed as infants and as older children. The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. For the first time, the separate practice areas are bridged, pointing out the significant overlap between the two populations and the similar interventions that can be used when working with adoptees regardless of their age at placement." (publisher's description)
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"Closed adoption."

By Betsie L. Norris.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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The Complete Adoption & Fertility Legal Guide.

By Brette McWhorter Sember.
Naperville, IL: Sphinx Pub., 2004.
"This guide offers couples and singles all the information they need to navigate the complicated and emotional territory facing those who wish to become families using adoption or assisted reproduction. Written by an attorney, this title explains the legal processes, procedures and requirements for every kind of family building, while offering practical information in easy-to-understand language.
Every type of fertility treatment currently available is discussed in a straightforward and practical manner, with an emphasis on legal rights, contracts and tips to manage the process and make sound decisions. Insemination, egg donation, embryo donation, IVF, GIFT, ZIFT and surrogacy (as well as some not yet available such as cloning and nuclear transfer) is addressed. Specifically, the title includes: -- Questions to ask donors -- What to look for in a contract -- Cryopreservation contracts -- Ownership of frozen embryos
Adoption sections include information about how to find an adoption attorney, how to work with an agency, ways to find a birth mother on your own, home studies, applications, costs, court procedures, questions to ask, tips for handling contracts and more. Specific topics include: -- Domestic adoption -- International adoption -- Agency adoption -- Parent-initiated adoptions." (publisher's description)
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Complex Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Developmental Approach to Clinical Practice.

By Vivian B. Shapiro, Janet R. Shapiro, and Isabel H. Paret; with a foreword by Nancy Boyd Webb.
New York, NY: Guilford Press, ©2001.
Series: Social Work Practice with Children and Families.
"This volume addresses the special set of issues that arise in therapeutic work with parents and children in families formed through complex adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART). The authors describe the wide range of new options that are available to couples and single adults, including those who face medical or social barriers to parenthood. In the area of adoption, thousands of children in foster and institutional care in the United States and abroad are awaiting permanent placements. Open adoption, kinship adoption, and transracial adoption are transforming family life, as is the use of ART, which raises many issues of family identity and family process. Key themes explored include the significance of early experience, the capacity to recover from exposure to trauma, the impact of heredity and the difference that environment can make, and the centrality of primary attachment relationships. Also discussed are issues affecting lesbian and gay families and other families of difference. Combining in-depth case material with a vast body of developmental, clinical, and ecological research, the book provides an integrative framework for clinical practice. It also spells out new ideas and future directions for training and research." (publisher's description)
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family.

By Karyn Brand Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, ©2007.
"The Connected Child is the literary equivalent of an airline oxygen mask and instructions: place the mask over your own face first, then over the nose of your child. This book first assists the parent, saying, in effect, 'Calm down, you're not the first mom or dad in the world to face this hurdle, breathe deeply, then follow these simple steps.' The sense of not facing these issues alone -- the relief that your child's behavior is not off the charts -- is hugely comforting. Other children have behaved this way; other parents have responded thusly; welcome to the community of therapeutic and joyful adoptive families." (publisher's description)
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"Contemporary adoption in the United States: implications for the next wave of adoption theory, research, and practice."

By Devon Brooks, Cassandra Simmel, Leslie Wind, Richard P. Barth.
Chapter In: Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
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"Contemporary transracial adoption narratives: prospects and perspectives."

By Helena Grice.
Chapter In: Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing: International Encounters.
By Helena Grice.
New York, NY; London, UK: Routledge, 2009.
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature; 10.
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Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption, and Kinship Care.

By Edited by Jenny Kenrick, Caroline Lindsey, and Lorraine Tollemache; with a foreword by Lionel Hersov.
London, UK: Karnac, 2006.
Series: Tavistock Clinic Series.
"Written for a professional readership, Creating New Families will be of interest to those directly involved in the fields of fostering and adoption. It represents best practice from the multidisciplinary Fostering and Adoption Team at the Tavistock Clinic Children and Families Department. Contents include: Theoretical Considerations; Treatment which focuses on the Child; Treatment which focuses on Parents and Families; Consultation; Work in different settings; Last word from a parent." (publisher's description)
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption.

Edited by Fiona Bowie.
London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists.
"Looking at examples from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Central America, this edited collection explores the cross-cultural contexts that affect adoption today and provides valuable analysis of global adoption practices." (publisher's description)
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"Cross-cultural perspectives on adoption."

By Suzanne Frayser.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"The Cultural-racial identity model: a theoretical framework for studying transracial adoptees."

By Amanda L. Baden and Robbie J. Steward.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Culture camps."

By Suzanne Frayser.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference.

By Heather Jacobson.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, ©2008.
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Cultures of Transnational Adoption.

Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
"During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward--a child traveled to a new country and stayed there--by the late twentieth century, adoptees were expected to acquaint themselves with the countries of their birth and explore their multiple identities. Listservs, Web sites, and organizations creating international communities of adoptive parents and adoptees proliferated. With contributors including several adoptive parents, this unique collection looks at how transnational adoption creates and transforms cultures.
The cultural experiences considered in this volume raise important questions about race and nation; about kinship, biology, and belonging; and about the politics of the sending and receiving nations. Several essayists explore the images and narratives related to transnational adoption. Others examine the recent preoccupation with "roots" and "birth cultures." They describe a trip during which a group of Chilean adoptees and their Swedish parents traveled "home" to Chile, the "culture camps" attended by thousands of young-adult Korean adoptees whom South Korea is now eager to reclaim as "overseas Koreans," and adopted children from China and their North American parents grappling with the question of what "Chinese" or "Chinese American" identity might mean. Essays on Korean birth mothers, Chinese parents who adopt children within China, and the circulation of children in Brazilian families reveal the complexities surrounding adoption within the so-called sending countries. Together, the contributors trace the new geographies of kinship and belonging created by transnational adoption." (publisher's description)
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The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Journey Toward Empowerment.

By John David Palmer.
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, ©2011.
Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies.
"The "1.5 generation" (Ilchom ose) refers to Koreans who immigrated to the United States as children. Unlike their first-generation parents and second-generation children born in the United States, 1.5ers have been socialized in both Korean and American cultures and express the cultural values and beliefs of each. In this first extended look at the 1.5 generation in Hawai'i, Mary Yu Danico attempts to fill a void in the research by addressing the social process through which Korean children are transformed from immigrants into 1.5ers. Dozens of informal, in-depth interviews and case studies provide rich data on how family, community, and economic and political factors influence and shape Korean and Korean American identity in Hawai'i.
Danico examines the history of Koreans in Hawai'i, their social characteristics, and current demographics. Her close consideration of socio-cultural influences firmly establishes the 1.5 generation in the mainstream discussion of identity formation and race relations." - (publisher's description)
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"The Description of gay and lesbian families in second-parent adoption cases."

By Catherine Connolly.
Chapter In: The Gay & Lesbian Marriage & Family Reader: Analyses of Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century.
Edited by Jennifer M. Lehmann.
New York, NY: Gordian Knot Books; Lincoln, NB: Distributed by University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.
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"Developmental challenges for adoptees across the lifecycle."

By Michael McGinn.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Disruption and dissolution of adoptions."

By Trudy Festinger.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Double stigma: the impact of adoption issues on lesbian and gay adoptive parents."

By Carol A. Boyer.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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The Dynamics of Adoption.

By Edited by Amal Treacher and Ilan Katz.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000.
"This text documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and the professionals. It reflects on the feelings detailed in the personal accounts deepening the debate on loss and feeling of abandonment." (publisher's description)
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Eastern European Adoption: Policies, Practice, and Strategies for Change.

By Josephine A. Ruggiero.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, ©2007.
"This volume addresses adoption policies and practices as they pertain to adopted children from Eastern Europe, children who have histories of 'pre-adoption adversity.' Drawing on her decade-long experience as an adoptive parent of siblings born in Russia and her expertise as an applied sociologist, Josephine Ruggiero examines the central issues involved in international adoptions, focusing on older children as well as siblings, and suggesting needed changes in policy and practice.
Only about three in ten Russian adoptees joined their new families as infants. Pre-adoption experiences are also significant factors in a child's ability to adjust and function well in a new family. Countries differ in risk factors that may figure into the likelihood of adoptees adapting to life in a new family. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, serious medical conditions, emotional problems, behavioral problems, attachment issues, learning disabilities, and exposure to family violence must be considered as potential risk factors in adoptions. Pre-adoption adversity is less likely when children come from birth families that are economically poor but have bonded with them.
At a time when adoption has finally 'come out of the closet' and the definition of the family is changing dramatically, Eastern European Adoption takes a much-needed look at current adoption policies and practices and how well they do or do not work. Ruggiero draws on the literature on older-child and sibling adoption, and data from a questionnaire survey she designed and conducted with 121 adoptive parents. Ruggiero's examples from real adoptive families give a human face to the issues, needs, and strategies she discusses." (publisher's description)
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"Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America."

By Toby Alice Volkman.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective.

Edited by Debbie Hindle and Graham Shulman.
London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.
"Demonstrating how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families, this book illustrates how psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help both as a treatment and as a distinctive source of understanding for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted. The book explores the nature and experiences of children placed for adoption, and how these shape and are shaped by unconscious processes in the child's inner world." (publisher's description)
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"Ethical issues in adoption."

By Madelyn Freundlich.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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The Ethics of Transracial Adoption.

By Hawley Fogg-Davis.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
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Families by Law: An Adoption Reader.

Edited by Naomi R. Cahn and Joan Heifetz Hollinger.
New York, NY: New York University Press, ©2004.
"Families by Law brings together diverse perspectives on contemporary aspects of adoption law and practice. Following a historical overview of adoption in American law and society, the reader presents different responses to concerns about who may place children for adoption, the status of birth parents, who may adopt, and the legal and psychosocial consequences of adoption. The new frontiers of adoption are explored: from transracial and intercountry adoption, adoption by same sex couples, and the adoption of children with special needs, to the movements for opening records and maintaining post-adoption contact between adoptive and birth families. The relationship between adoption and assisted reproductive technologies is discussed, as are feminist, economic, and philosophical perspectives on adoption and procreation. The volume includes statutes and cases, advocacy organization statements, and pieces from legal scholars, social scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists in order to provide a wealth of information about the contemporary dimensions of adoption." (publisher's description)
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Family Matters: Adoption and Foster Care in Children's Literature.

By Ruth Lyn Meese.
Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, ©2010.
"This volume is designed to give librarians and teachers guidance on the subject of adoption and foster care-both as themes in children's literature and as issues affecting many students." - (publisher's description)
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"Family resemblances: adoption, personal identity, and genetic essentialism."

By Charlotte Witt.
Chapter In: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.
Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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"Feminism, race, and adoption policy."

By Dorothy Roberts.
Chapter In: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.
Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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"'For him, it's got to be your own son': adoption and infertility in British South Asian communities."

By Lorraine Culley and Nicky Hudson.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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"From the ashes of war: lessons from 50 years of Korean international adoption."

By Hollee McGinnis.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Gay- and lesbian-headed adoptive families."

By Scott D. Ryan.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Gay & Lesbian Parenting Choices: From Adopting or Using a Surrogate to Choosing the Perfect Father.

By Brette McWhorter Sember.
Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, ©2006.
"Creating a family is one of the greatest joys a couple can have, but gay and lesbian couples face unique challenges when they wish to become parents together. Written by an attorney in an easy-to-understand style, this guide provides a comprehensive look at the options available to gay couples and offers advice and information on how best to proceed. It helps gay and lesbian prospective parents choose the path to parenthood that will work best for them and offers advice and support as they journey towards becoming a family." (publisher's description)
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Gay Men Choosing Parenthood.

By Gerald P. Mallon.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, ©2004.
"Using a 'decidedly gay-affirming lens' that does not assume heterosexuality is the norm, Mallon's study of gay parenthood employs case studies and interviews to illuminate its subject. The author, an associate professor of social work at Hunter College, examines the factors that contribute to the changes in gay men's lives once they become parents and offers suggestions as to why these changes should impact the child welfare system and professionals who work in the human services fields. Focusing on dads in New York and Los Angeles and using cogent, non-technical prose, Mallon explores issues such as the initial reactions to bringing a new child home, community responses to gay dads and gender politics. He also provides insight into the emotions common to gay men who choose to become parents. His study should enlighten psychologists, policy makers and anyone working in the field of childcare and the legal and social institutions surrounding it." (publisher's description)
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade.

By Ann Fessler.
New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2006.
"This book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up. Single pregnant women were shunned by family and friends, evicted from schools, sent away to maternity homes to have their children alone, and often treated with cold contempt by doctors, nurses, and clergy. The majority of the women interviewed by Fessler, herself an adoptee, have never spoken of their experiences, and most have been haunted by grief and shame their entire adult lives." (publisher's description)
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"Going 'home': adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots."

By Barbara Yngvesson.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.

Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
"The Handbook of Adoption is the first text to specifically address adoption concerns in the United States. It also serves as a sourcebook to train mental health and behavioral health professionals. This book addresses topics in adoption that reflect the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race, adjustment, and clinical practice which can and do affect adoption triad members. Contributors to this volume are nationally known experts, many of whom are directly involved in adoption-related research and practice and who can provide insight from personal and professional experience." (publisher's description)
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Heredity and Environment in 300 Adoptive Families: The Texas Adoption Project.

By Joseph M. Horn and John C. Loehlin.
New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine Transaction, ©2010.
"This book presents the results of a thirty-five-year research project involving 300 families, each of whom adopted at least one child at birth from a Texas home for unwed mothers during the period of 1962-1970. The book weaves together information about the birth parents of the adopted children; information about the adoptive parents; and information about the children in these families.
Children adopted at birth have two sets of parents. Birth parents provide their adopted-away child with a genetic endowment, but do not participate in shaping the child's environment. Adoptive parents do not contribute genetically, but are otherwise in charge of directing the child's development. If adopted children grow up to resemble birth parents they have never seen, the clear inference is that hereditary factors have had an influence. Environmental factors are implicated whenever children resemble their adoptive parents, but not the birth parents. The Texas Adoption Project was designed to investigate the impact of genetic and environmental factors.
This unique and innovative longitudinal study is written for specialists and the educated public. An introductory guide is provided for the non-specialist reader explaining the form and statistical content of the tables. Additional technical material for specialists is contained in appendices.
This important contribution to the literature on adoption will also be of interest to those interested in the relative weight of genetics and environment in human development." - (publisher's description)
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Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage.

By David Valdes Greenwood.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Life Long, 2007.
"What happens when you pair a romantic with a nonromantic? Where does the twain meet when you like to wow your lover with an original song and he thinks a bar of soap is a thoughtful gift? In his charming, often hilarious account of his decade-long relationship with his boyfriend (now husband), journalist David Valdes Greenwood sets the record straight on gay marriage, playfully disarming the arguments against it. Here are the highpoints (and some low points) that chart any good relationship: from the first blush of romance; to meeting the in-laws; to forgetting your pants at your own wedding; to figuring out in those first years that "life as a couple is all about discovering just how many things you can approach differently without actually killing each other"; and finally, of sharing that first great love, a child.
Poignant and smart, these notes from a same-sex marriage will strike a chord with anyone who has ever known just how outrageous, challenging, and maddeningly wonderful the ties of love can be, no matter what configuration your family." (publisher's description)
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"Identity, psychological adjustment, culture, and race: issues for transracial adoptees and the cultural-racial identity model."

By Amanda L. Baden.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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The Impact of Adoption on Members of the Triad.

By Madelyn Freundlich and Joy Kim Lieberthal.
Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, ©2001.
Series: Adoption and Ethics; v. 3.
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories.

By Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, ©2000.
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In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees.

By Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, ©2007.
"Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.
These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption." (publisher's description)
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In Their Siblings' Voices: White Non-adopted Siblings Talk about their Experiences being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters.

By Rita James Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, ©2009.
"In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, which, for them, played out against the backdrop of two tumultuous, politically charged decades. Simon and Roorda question whether professionals and adoption agencies adequately trained these children in the challenges presented by blended families, and they ask if, after more than thirty years, race still matters. Few books cover both the academic and the human dimensions of this issue. In Their Siblings' Voices helps readers fully grasp the dynamic of living in a multiracial household and its effect on friends, school, and community." (publisher' description)
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The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children, 2nd edition.

By Billy Joe Jones, Mark Tilden, and Kelly Gaines-Stoner.
Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, ©2008.
"This is one-of-a-kind guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, enacted to ameliorate the problem of the removal of Native American children from their homes by state welfare agencies and private agencies and to ensure that those children would be placed in homes that reflect their cultures and traditions. Now revised and updated, it examines case law from courts around the country-this is not an issue confined to reservations and their border towns. It explains the history of the act and how is applied, as well as its procedural requirements." (publisher's description)
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"Infertility and inter-country adoption."

By Gill Haworth, Peter Selman, and Jan Way.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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"Informal adoption, apprentices, and indentured children in the colonial era and the new republic, 1605-1850."

By Lori Askeland.
Chapter In: Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.
Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
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"The Inner life of the adopted child: adoption, trauma, loss, fantasy, search and reunion."

By Betty Jean Lifton.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Insight into Adoption: What Adoptive Parents Need to Know about the Fundamental Differences between a Biological and an Adopted Child--and its Effect on Parenting.

By Barbara Taylor Blomquist.
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, ©2001.
"Adoption is intended to be, and should be, a fulfilling, beautiful, rewarding, and enriching aspect in anyone's life. Many times, however, there are pitfalls and a lack of resources to turn to for help, advice, and answers on the subject. This book deals with these pitfalls which may not be obvious to the unenlightened adoptive parent who was basically handed a child and told to 'Make him your own.' The goal of this book is to help adoptive parents understand some potentially challenging factors so they can deal with them positively and to help parents comprehend the thinking process of their child. It will also be an invaluable resource to social workers, teachers, and counselors so that they may approach their adopted clients in an enlightened way once they understand an adopted child has issues in his life unique to the adoptive process. Adoptive parents reading this book can gain a different insight into their child's reasoning, and this information can be used to avert some potential problems they might otherwise face. It includes all the issues that adoptive families should be told about, and it is based primarily upon real life experiences relating equally to both sexes. In particular, it will apprise the non-adopted person, the adoptive parent, so he can look at the obstacles his adopted child may be facing. Then he, as a parent, can begin to understand his child's behavior. Once the true source of the adopted child's pain is discovered, parents can reach the 'ah, ha' moment we have all experienced. With understanding comes a new attitude and the impetus to change the whole atmosphere from negative to positive. The child and his parents will still have issues to deal with, but the source has been uncovered and issues can be faced openly. Readers will appreciate that the book is designed to flow in the first person as if the author was talking directly with them." (publisher's description)
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Inside Transracial Adoption.

By Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall.
Indianapolis, IN: Perspectives Press, ©2000.
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Inter-Country Adoption: Practical Experiences.

Edited by Michael Humphrey and Heather Humphrey.
London, UK; New York, NY: Tavistock/Routledge, 1993.
"Over the past 20 years, the growing shortage of adoptable infants in the United States and Britain has forced a number of couples to look abroad. Inter-Country Adoption charts the experiences of eight couples who, between them, have adopted 11 children from South America, India and Sri Lanka.
The main emphasis of these firsthand accounts is on the events leading up to the decision to adopt from abroad and on the obstacles involved in dealing with the authorities in Britain and in the child's country of origin. The last two chapters are written by an academic social worker and a parliamentary campaigner who examine the legal and ethical considerations of inter-country adoption." (publisher's description)
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"International adoption."

By Elizabeth Bartholet.
Chapter In: Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.
Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
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International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children.

Edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs.
New York, NY: New York University Press, ©2009.
"In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions--particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need." (publisher's description)
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"International adoption of Latin American children: psychological adjustment, cultural and legal Issues."

By Alina Camacho-Gingerich, Susan Branco, Rafael A. Javier, and Raul Pitieri.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"A Legal history of adoption and ongoing legal challenges."

By Madelyn Freundlich.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950.

By Julie Berebitsky.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, ©2000.
"Talk about adoption has become increasingly politicized, as debates swirl around the morality and viability of various forms of adoption: interracial, international, 'open,' and those involving single parents or gay and lesbian couples. Paramount in many minds is the threat to the traditional (or mythical) nuclear family. But, as Julie Berebitsky shows, such concerns are fairly recent developments in the history of adoption.
Berebitsky reveals that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the rules governing adoption were much less rigid and adoptive parents and families were considerably more diverse. In Like Our Very Own, she chronicles the experiences of adoptive parents and children during a century of great change, illuminating the prominent role adoption came to play in defining both motherhood and family in America." (publisher's description)
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Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929.

By Claudia Nelson.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ©2003.
"When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929--the first year that every state had an adoption law--the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagiation." (publisher's description)
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Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience, 3rd edition, expanded and updated.

By Betty Jean Lifton.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Notes: Originally published: New York, NY: Dial Press, 1979.
"The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption---including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families.
This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites." (publisher's description)
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Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns about Race.

By Sharon E. Rush.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2000.
"What could a liberal, civil rights law professor have to learn about race? When Sharon Rush adopted her African American daughter, she quickly realized just how much she had left to learn. In this heartfelt memoir, the author relates how her loving maternal relationship opened her eyes to the harsh realities of the American racial divide. By living with her daughter through day-to-day encounters, Rush learned that racism is far more devastating to blacks than most whites can ever imagine. Some of the stories are funny, others are sad: a few are almost unbelievable. But they all are poignant because they illustrate how insightful a little black girl can be about race & justice." (publisher's description)
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Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents.

By Mary Lyndon Shanley.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, ©2001.
"Heart-wrenching, high-profile court cases such as the Baby M case have called attention to the troubling consequences of new reproductive technology; the law has yet to catch up with the ways that people create families today. Although these times may appear chaotic and confusing, Mary Shanley shows us that we don't have to be afraid. Her timely work begins by demonstrating that the traditional model of the 'natural,' patriarchal family is outdated, and that the newer contractual model based on equality between adults can lead to questionable results for the child.
Shanley offers a new vision of family law that's based on existing caring relationships of adults for children. It ensures each child's right to be cared for, and takes into account the emotional realities of family life. She applies this practical, humane model to the most complex and controversial issues of our time, including adoption, biological fathers' legal rights, surrogate motherhood, lesbian families, and the rights of sperm and egg donors and recipients." (publisher's description)
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The Many-Sided Triangle: Adoption in Australia.

By Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald.
Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2001.
"A many-sided triangle is the paradoxical image by which this book seeks to capture the complexity of child adoption. A single adoption profoundly touches the lives of so many people-the child itself, the birth mother, the birth father, the adoptive parent or parents, and their relatives and friends. This is the first comprehensive account of the history of adoption in Australia, its law and practice. This is not only an invaluable handbook for all workers, professionals, administrators, teachers and students in the field. It is also a reliable source of information, guidance and comfort for anyone caught up in adoption." (publisher's description)
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The Market Forces in Adoption.

By Madelyn Freundlich.
Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, 2000.
Series: Adoption and Ethics; v. 2.
"The role of money and power in the context of adoption and the extent of accountability have become critical questions in adoption policy and practice today. These issues arise in three arenas: the adoption of infants in the United States, the adoption of children in foster care, and international adoption. This volume considers each of these in relation to market forces and the role of marketing in adoption both by prospective adoptive parents and adoption professionals." (publisher's description)
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"Moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of Black and biracial children."

By Rhonda Roordah.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"My decision to adopt again."

By Kevin P. McGarry.
Chapter In: Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad.
By Kevin P. McGarry.
New York, NY: Harrington Park Press, ©2003.
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"National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) policy on preserving families of African ancestry."

By the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW).
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories.

By Rita James Simon and Sarah Hernandez.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, ©2008.
"This study focuses on the lives of Native American transracial adoptees and their struggle to establish a healthy sense of cultural identity, while being raised in non-Native homes. The twenty participants in this study focus on what methods their adoptive parents used or, in some cases, did not use to help them establish their own sense of cultural identity. In the end, most participants agreed that adoptive parents can help their adoptive child establish a healthy sense of cultural identity by nurturing a connection between their child and their child's tribal community." (publisher's description)
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"New geographies of kinship."

By Toby Alice Volkman.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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"Open adoption."

By Harold D. Grotevant.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Open adoption is not for everyone."

By Anita L. Allen.
Chapter In: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.
Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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"Open adoptions: longitudinal outcomes for the adoption triad."

By Ruth McRoy, Harold D. Grotevant, Susan Ayers-Lopez, and Susan M. Henney.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Openness in adoption: outcomes for adolescents with the adoptive kinship networks."

By Harold D. Grotevant, Yvette V. Perry, and Ruth G. McRoy.
Chapter In: Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
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Our Son, a Stranger: Adoption Breakdown and its Effects on Parents.

By Marie Adams.
Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
"In 1973 Marie and Rod Adams, brimming with idealism and keenly aware of the plight of disadvantaged aboriginal children, adopted Tim, a young Cree boy, two and one half years old. Tim began displaying severe behavioural problems almost immediately, problems that, despite their efforts to find help, only became worse over the years. He left home at the age of twelve and died on the streets when he was twenty-one. Devastated by their loss, the Adams began to search for answers as to why things had gone so horribly wrong. In Our Son, a Stranger Marie Adams describes five white couples whose adoptions of native children failed to meet their expectations. Using her own experiences as background, she casts a critical eye on the "Sixties Scoop" when governments actively encouraged the adoption of native children by non-native parents an estimated 95 per cent of such adoptions failed and discusses why the special issues raised by all trans-racial adoptions need to be carefully considered." (publisher's description)
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"Parent-child interaction styles between gay and lesbian parents and their adopted children."

By Scott Ryan.
Chapter In: Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions.
Edited by Fiona Tasker and Jerry J. Bigner.
Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, ©2007.
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"Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor."

By Claudia Fonseca.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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"Placing the adoptive self."

By Carol Sanger.
Chapter In: Child, Family, and State.
Edited by Stephen Macedo and Iris Marion Young.
New York, NY: New York University Press, ©2003.
Series: Nomos; 44.
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The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice.

By Kerry O'Halloran.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
"The Politics of Adoption identifies and analyses the fundamental social and legal functions of adoption. It is a timely publication as across the world adoption law reform is now giving rise to contentious issues. The change process underway in England and Wales offers an opportunity and a perspective to explore areas of commonality and difference in the experience of other nations. It also provides a window through which to examine the presumption that within and between cultures there exists a common understanding of what is meant by adoption.
This book offers a comparative analysis of developments in the law, policy and practice of adoption in England and Wales, the US, Australia and Ireland. It explores the global phenomenon of intercountry adoption. The impact of the European Convention and other international legal instruments are assessed and the resulting implications for the future of adoption are considered. It suggests that the more open experience of adoption in indigenous communities such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Inuit of Canada challenges some of the basic assumptions underpinning adoption law in modern western nations." (publisher's description)
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The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.

Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
"Since early times, families have adopted children in all parts of the world. Records describing adoption in Ancient Rome, Babylonia, and China show the similarities and differences to the adoption practices we know today. This comprehensive resource provides both historical and current information on all aspects of adoption, from many countries and religions, including Africa, Britain, Canada, China, India, Islam, Japan, Jewish, Mexico, Mormon, and others. It provides information on the cultural, ethical, financial, legal, medical, psychological, and social implications of adoption. It highlights perspectives of the birth parents, adopting parents and the adopted child; open and closed adoption; national and international adoption; grandparent and single-parent adoption. Primary documents, biographies of those in the adoption field, and sidebars identifying special facts relating to the history and experience of adoption, complete this most exhaustive resource that no library serving adopting parents, adoptees, or practitioners in the field will want to be without. Entries include: Abandonment and Adoption in European Folk Tales, Adopted Child Syndrome, Adoptee Search Movement, Adoption Literature Sample, Africa and Adoption, Assisted Reproductive Technologies Adoption, Birthfathers, Child Welfare League of America, Chinese History and Adoption, Embryo Adoption, Gay Adoption, Grandparent Adoption, Group Adoption and Shared Motherhood, Judaism and Adoption, Medical Issues in Adoption, Orphanages, Post Adoption Services, Termination of Parental Rights, and U.S. Children's Bureau and Adoption." (publisher's description)
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"Psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of the adoptee."

By Christopher Deeg.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.

Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
"In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption. This has resulted in a rise in international adoption, children of color being placed with Caucasian parents, increased foster care and special needs adoptions including children exposed to prenatal alcohol and drug use as well as maltreatment by birth parents. Also examined is the far more diverse group of adults being granted adoption rights, including single and homosexual parents. Research findings demonstrate the trend across countries toward open adoption, wherein the birth parents and adoptive parents meet to share information. As the editors note, there is no longer a typical adopted child or a typical adoptive family.
Paralleling these changes has been a growing interest in the study of adopted children and adoptive parents. Although earlier research showed adoptees more likely to experience school problems and psychological disorders, recent studies show the differences in these areas between adoptees and non-adoptees to be relatively small. Models guiding adoption research are beginning to emphasize resilience and positive adaptation, rather than risk and psychopathology. This handbook will be of interest to all involved with adoption policy and practice." (publisher's description)
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"Putting culture into context: the impact of attitudes toward the adoption of Chinese adoptees."

By Amanda L. Baden.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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'Race', Ethnicity, and Adoption.

By Derek Kirton.
Buckingham, England; Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 2000.
Series: Race, Health, and Social Care.
"This text reviews the controversy surrounding the adoption of black and minority ethnic children, either transracially into white families or into matched 'same race' placements. Through analysis of research and the writings of protagonists, the core concepts are explored and located within broader debates on 'race' and the family. The history of the controversy is set out in terms of the competing paradigms offered by liberalism and black radicalism, and more recent 'post-structuralist' influences. The author argues the need to see adoption as inherently political and contested." (publisher's description)
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"Recent and future directions for adoption research."

By Jesus Palacios and David M. Brodzinsky.
Chapter In: Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice.
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005.
Edited by David M. Brodzinsky and Jesús Palacios.
Series: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology; v. 24.
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"Reevaluating transracial adoption."

By Barbara Ballis Lal.
Chapter In: Rethinking Mixed Race.
Edited by David Parker and Miri Song.
London, UK; Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001.
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The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family.

By Rachael Stryker.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.
"Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a psychiatric condition affecting children that is characterized by inappropriate and sometimes disturbing ways of relating socially to others, including parents. Relatively rare, RAD is thought to arise from a failure to form close attachments to primary caregivers in early childhood due to abrupt or prolonged separation, neglect, or abuse. In the United States, the incidence of RAD increased in the 1990s as Americans began to adopt an unprecedented number of formerly institutionalized children from orphanages abroad and from within American child welfare systems. To help resolve the extreme behavioral problems exhibited by their children, many adoptive parents are now turning to a controversial but popular treatment: attachment therapy.
In The Road to Evergreen, Rachael Stryker provides an in-depth exploration of the theory, implementation, and culture of attachment therapy as it is practiced in Evergreen, Colorado, the center of RAD treatment in the United States. To understand RAD and the Evergreen model, Stryker conducted interviews with client families at an attachment clinic in Evergreen, other American adoptive families, participants in the Denver foster care system, and personnel at international adoption agencies and orphanages. At the center of Stryker's analysis is the disjuncture between the ideal of family life and the reality of caring for formerly institutionalized children. American parents who have pledged to offer unconditional love are at a loss when children offer indifference, hostility, destructiveness, or outright violence in return. Stryker demonstrates that the Evergreen model, with its goal of emotionally rehabilitating adoptees to prevent their eventual exile from families, is an important component of a cultural logic for preserving adoptive family in the United States. However, the therapy does not always deliver the promised happy ending. Stryker's clear and balanced account of attachment therapy will be useful in informing and reforming both adoption practice and pediatric psychology." - (publisher's description)
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The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in Adoption.

By Madelyn Freundlich.
Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America and Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, ©2000.
Series: Adoption and Ethics; v. 1.
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"Same-sex adoption and heirs."

By Vern L. Bullough.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Science, social work, and bureaucracy: cautious developments in adoption and foster care, 1930-1969."

By Dianne Creagh.
Chapter In: Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide.
Edited by Lori Askeland.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Children and Youth.
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"Several steps behind: gay and lesbian adoption."

By Sarah Tobias.
Chapter In: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays.
Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
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"The Shift from medical treatment to adoption: exploring family building options."

By Petra Thorn.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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"Single parent adoptions."

By Joan F. Shireman.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Single parent adoptions and clinical implications."

By Naz Pakizegi.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Sociological perspectives on adoptive families."

By Katarina Wegar.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"The Special needs of special needs adoptees and their families."

By Elizabeth Keagy and Barbara Rall.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption.

By Barbara Melosh.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
"Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confidence in social engineering. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. It says much about the American experience of family across the twentieth century and our shifting notions of kinship and assimilation. Above all, it speaks of real people striving to make families out of strangers.
In the early twentieth century, childless adults confronted orphanages reluctant to entrust their wards to the kindness of strangers. By the 1930s, however, the recently formed profession of social work claimed a new expertise--the science and art of child placement--and adoption became codified in law. It flourished in the United States, reflecting our ethnic diversity, pluralist ideals, and pragmatic approach to family. Then, in the 1960s, as the sexual revolution reshaped marriage, motherhood, and women's work, adoption became a less attractive option and the number of adoptive families precipitously declined. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption.
This gripping history is told through poignant stories of individuals, garnered from case records long inaccessible to others, and captures the profound losses and joys that make adoption a lifelong process." (publisher's description)
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"Subsidy programs for adoption."

By Tim O'Hanlon.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past.

By Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler; illustrations by Jack G. and Kristi Anne Kammer.
Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 2000.
"'Do I have to tell my adopted child the truth?' This is a question that faces every adoptive parent. Filling a much-needed gap in the adoption literature regarding communication with adopted children, Telling the Truth to Your Adopted-Foster Child provides parents with the important knowledge of why adopted children need to know the truth about their past. The authors offer practical guidelines and tools that parents can use in communicating with their children the circumstances of their past. This book presents the developmental stages of how children understand adoption and what needs to be said to a child age appropriately. The authors suggest how to share with children the painful and difficult issues regarding their circumstances, birth family and background. The goal is to provide a gateway into life as emotionally and psychologically healthy adults, with solid foundations for identity and self-esteem." (publisher's description)
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"Termination of parental rights."

By Martin Guggenheim.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Thinking Psychologically about Children Who are Looked After and Adopted: Space for Reflection.

Edited by Kim S. Golding and others.
Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, ©2006.
"This innovative collection makes thinking psychologically about looked after and adopted children accessible and, in doing so, provides an insight into the world of these children. Informed by research, practice and psychological theory, this volume provides an overview of the area and considers the context for helping children change and develop. It goes on to describe in detail the techniques and approaches used by clinicians, and explains how interventions can be developed and adapted for children and young people living in residential, foster and adoptive care. Careful consideration is also given to carers and families living with these children.
With its multi-disciplinary approach, Thinking Psychologically About Children Who Are Looked After and Adopted will appeal to all professionals involved in the care and education of placed children. It will also be of interest to policy makers and lecturers and students of social work." (publisher's description)
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"Toward a sociology of adoption: historical deconstruction."

By Dawn Esposito and Frank Biafora.
Chapter In: Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families.
Edited by Rafael A. Javier and others; with a preface by David Brodzinsky.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, ©2007.
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"Toward new understandings of adoption."

By Mary Lyndon Shanley.
Chapter In: Child, Family, and State.
Edited by Stephen Macedo and Iris Marion Young.
New York, NY: New York University Press, ©2003.
Series: Nomos; 44.
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Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship.

By Sara K. Dorow.
New York, NY: New York University Press, ©2006.
Series: Nation of Newcomers.
"Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children.
Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific-from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves-this is a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration." (publisher's description)
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"Transracial and intercountry adoption."

By Rita J. Simon.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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"Transracial and open adoption: new forms of family relationships."

By Mary Lyndon Shanley.
Chapter In: Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents.
By Mary Lyndon Shanley.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002.
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Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents.

Edited by Kathleen Hushion, Susan B. Sherman, and Diana Siskind.
Lanham, MD: J. Aronson, ©2006.
"Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life, and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the focus of Understanding Adoption.
Because adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because is has greatly changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds." (publisher's description)
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"Wedding citizenship and culture Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea."

By Eleana Kim.
Chapter In: Cultures of Transnational Adoption.
Edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
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When Adoptions Go Wrong: Psychological and Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption.

By Lita Linzer Schwartz.
New York, NY: Haworth Press, ©2006.
Series: Haworth marriage and family therapy.
"When Adoptions Go Wrong is a comprehensive resource on the causes of interrupted adoptions, including changing profiles of adoptive parents who have new reasons for wanting to adopt. With the help of detailed case examples, this powerful book explores the impact of disruptions on the children, the legal issues of determining in whose 'best interests' decisions are made, and possible methods of reducing the negative affects of those decisions on the children. It also stresses how important it is, for the professionals involved, to be aware of child development in the adoption process." (publisher's description)
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"When infertility arises from a prior health condition: fit to adopt?"

By Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
Chapter In: Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience.
Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen.
London, UK; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
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"Wrongful adoption."

By Madelyn Freundlich.
Chapter In: The Praeger Handbook of Adoption.
Edited by Kathy Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough.
Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
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Digital Dissertations

Here is a link to a guide to aid researchers in searching the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Collection. The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses collection is for the use of UT Arlington faculty and students, and the collection includes many dissertations that are full-text online in a digital PDF format; the dissertations listed below are just a few of these online titles. To access the online full-text click on the link marked "Page Image - PDF" in the upper right. If you have a problem with using this research resource, please email me at: <dillard@uta.edu> or call my cell phone at: (817) 675-8962. Listed below are just a few of the the many dissertations that deal with adoption issues, all of those listed in this section require the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing.

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Adaptation and transformation: The transition to adoptive parenthood for gay male couples.

By Gianino, Mark, Ph.D.
Simmons College School of Social Work, 2005 , 203 pages
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Adopted adolescents: Do social supports act as a buffer between stressors and adoptive parent-child relationships?

By Johnson, Lisa Barbanell, Ph.D.
The Florida State University, 2006 , 127 pages
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Adoptee information seeking: Changes between adolescence and emerging adulthood and the impact of adoption communicative openness.

By Skinner-Drawz, Brooke Alison, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, 2009 , 89 pages
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Adoption disruption, stability, success, and attachment security of adoptive parents.

By Hudspeth, Doretha Louise Davis, Ph.D.
Texas Woman's University, 2008 , 199 pages
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Attachment theory & the experience of parents who adopted children with pre-adoptive histories of abuse: A qualitative study of intact placements.

By Dunkelberg, Ruby Lynn, Psy.D.
Alliant International University, San Diego, 2008 , 199 pages
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The Banning of international adoption in Romania: Reasons, meaning, and implications for child care and protection.

By Norris, Carolyn Lisa, Ed.D.
Boston University, 2009 , 148 pages
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Burnout in foster/adoptive parents, child strengths and risk factors, and the intention to adopt.

By Dilley, Carrie N., Ph.D.
Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology, 2007, 127 pages
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A Case study approach of the attitudes of African-American parents who have inracially adopted toward Caucasian-American parents who have transracially adopted African-American children.

By Aguayo, Melody J., Ph.D.
Capella University, 2010, 264 pages
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"Ceausescu's orphans": Narrating the crisis of Romanian international child adoption.

By Popa-Mabe, Melania C., Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, 2010, 315 pages
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A Comparison of adoptive gay and adoptive heterosexual fathers: Differences in their perception of parenting abilities, level of parental stress, style of parenting, and available social support.

By Lichtanski, Kristopher, Ph.D.
Capella University, 2004 , 154 pages
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A Comparison of near-term outcomes of foster children who reunified, were adopted or were in guardianship.

By Magruder, John Joseph, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, 2010, 126 pages
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A Descriptive review of interracial and interethnic adoption: A tale of two identities.

By Morea, Marilisa, Psy.D.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2007 , 139 pages
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Developing emotional security among children who have been adopted.

By Trujillo, Kate, Ph.D.
University of Denver, 2010, 147 pages
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Developing one's self: Adoption and identity formation through the eyes of transracially adopted Native American adults.

By Becker-Green, Jody, Ph.D.
Portland State University, 2009 , 248 pages
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The Discourse of gay & lesbian adoption: Constructing the issue for the public.

By Retano, Melissa G., Ph.D.
Temple University, 2009, 374 pages
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Discrepancies between pre-adoption expectations and post-adoption experiences for parents of children adopted from institutional care.

By Chesney, Mary Lois, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, 2008 , 344 pages
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Early adjustment processes in internationally adopted children and their families.

By Patterson-Mills, Sarah, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University, 2010, 161 pages
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Early predictors of disinhibited attachment behaviors among internationally adopted children.

By Chatham, Melissa Leigh, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, 2008 , 74 pages
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The Effects of a family-guided routines-based intervention program on parents with children adopted internationally.

By Coston, Jade Hill, Ph.D.
The Florida State University, 2008, 139 pages
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Ethnic socialization, identity development, and psychological adjustment in international adoptees as adolescents and young adults.

By Mohanty, Jayashree, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2008 , 135 pages
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The Experience of mothers adopting through the foster care system.

By Quinn-Beers, Joanne, Ph.D.
Adelphi University, School of Social Work, 2009 , 150 pages
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An Exploration of racial identity development and coping skills in transracial adoptees.

By Greco, Christine A., Psy.D.
Chestnut Hill College, 2009 , 134 pages
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Family relationships and adolescent behavior: A look at families headed by heterosexual, lesbian, and gay parents.

By Hawkins, Stacy Ann, Ph.D.
The Claremont Graduate University, 2010, 141 pages
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Family resilience as a predictor of better adjustment among international adoptees.

By Buchanan, Toby, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008 , 139 pages
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Filling the void: An autoethnographic study of a transracial adoptee.

By Wong, Cathy L., Ph.D.
California Institute of Integral Studies, 2009 , 156 pages
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Finding home: Evaluative study of the efficacy of MEPA-IEP and permanently committed children.

By O'Brien, Andrea L., Ph.D.
Capella University, 2008 , 161 pages
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Gay fathers with children adopted from foster care: Understanding their experiences and predicting adoption outcomes.

By Braun, Shawnee Dove, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2006, 207 pages
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Gay men and adoption: A qualitative study that explores the psychological processes gay men encounter.

By Howell, John W., Psy.D.
Argosy University/Seattle, 2005 , 114 pages
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Gay men choosing fatherhood.

By Sbordone, Albert Joseph, Ph.D.
City University of New York, 1993, 137 pages
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Genetic and environmental influences of maternal psychosocial and antisocial tendencies on the development, stability, and continuity of problem behaviors in adoptees from the Texas Adoption Project: A life course investigation of risk, resilience, and vulnerability.

By Ernst, Jody Lynn, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 2006, 184 pages
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The Impact of preadoptive childhood sexual abuse on adopted boys.

By Nalavany, Blace Arthur, Ph.D.
The Florida State University, 2006, 228 pages
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The Impact of religiosity, religious support, and worker support on special needs adoption: Child, family and parent outcomes.

By Belanger, Kathleen Hartnett, Ph.D.
University of Houston, 2004 , 174 pages
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Interactions of unusual families with social institutions: Lesbian mothers, adoption, and race.

By Sandifer, Margaret Helen, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, 1996 , 498 pages
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Lesbian couples choosing parenthood: A qualitative inquiry of the process to become parents.

By NewHeart, L. Forest, Ph.D.
The University of Kansas, 2005, 207 pages
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Long-term adjustment of parents adopting from foster care: The influence of parent and child factors on perceived positive and negative family impact.

By Paczkowski, Emilie Ann, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2009, 159 pages
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A Look at Black ethnic identity and transracial adoption: A contextual perspective.

By Hayes, Mellonie S., Ph.D.
The Florida State University, 2008 , 122 pages
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Making room for daddies: Male couples and their adopted children.

By Wells, Gregory Charles, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 2005 , 132 pages
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Maternal anxiety related to adoption disclosure: What are the mediating variables?

By Langer, Lisa, Ph.D.
Adelphi University, The Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, 2005 , 127 pages
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Parenting special needs children adopted from residential treatment programs.

By Rathsachack, Vong Lakhone, Ph.D.
Capella University, 2008 , 126 pages
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Perceived attachment security and psychological adjustment in recently adopted pre-adolescents.

By Chang, Angela C., Ph.D.
Adelphi University, School of Social Work, 2007 , 113 pages
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Placing children in need with gay and lesbian couples: Influences on placement decisions.

By Mallinger, Gayle, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2010, 153 pages
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Predicting contact over time between adoptive parents and birthmothers in the open adoptive kinship network.

By Wolfgram, Susan Margaret, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, 2005 , 101 pages
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Psycholinguistic textual correlates and classifying the Adult Attachment Interview: A tool for foster care and adoption communities.

By O'Hara, Maile, Ph.D.
New School University, 2007 , 128 pages
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A Relational model of understanding adult Korean adoptees' ethnic identity formation in the United States.

By Kim, Kang-Il, Ph.D.
Texas Christian University, 2008 , 268 pages
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Resiliency factors of international adoptees in transracial families.

By Forsyth, Jo, Psy.D.
The University of the Rockies, 2009, 109 pages
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Second parent adoption in lesbian families: Legalizing the reality of the child.

By McClellan, Daphne Lynn, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, 1997, 257 pages
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Self-experiences in parents who adopt traumatized children.

By Wolter, Linda L., Ph.D.
Institute for Clinical Social Work (Chicago), 2009 , 155 pages
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A Study of the pre-adoption functioning and post-adoption adjustment of children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, tobacco and/or other drugs.

By Goldman, Geraldine DeLong, Ph.D.
The Florida State University, 2007, 217 pages
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Two mothers and their child: A multimethod study of parenting bonds and division of labor within lesbian adoptive families.

By Bennett, Susanne, Ph.D.
Smith College School for Social Work, 2001 , 233 pages
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