Poston, D: Children for Families or Families for Children
(Sprache: Englisch)
Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and...
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Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types of adoptions-domestic adoptions, private and public through the foster care system, and intercountry adoptions-differ? Domestic trends include a shift to open adoptions and a notable increase in "hard to place", foster care adoptions-typically older, siblings, minorities, with physical, educational, or emotional challenges. Adoptive parents are increasingly all ages (including grandparents); all types of marriages (single, married and same-sex couples); all income levels, with subsidized adoptions for children who would otherwise remain in foster or institutional care. Intercountry adoptions have followed waves, pushed by wars and political or economic crises in the sending country, and pulled by the increasing demand from the U. S. Currently there is a decrease in intercountry adoptions from Asia and Eastern Europe with a possible fifth wave from Africa with the greatest number from Ethiopia. This is a resource for family sociologists, demographers, social workers, advocates for children and adoptive parents, as well as those who are interested in the continuing research in adoptions.
Adoption affects the lives of many people in a very complex manner. This book emphasize the need for a social demographic analysis of adoption and adoption behavior in the United States. Recent changes are addressed in the adoption process. These include a shift in focus from potential benefits for adopters to the best interests of the adoptees; a decrease in the domestic availability of healthy white infants, and a subsequent increase in the rate and cultural acceptance of transracial and transcultural adoptions; increases in the diversity of those interested in adopting a child; and the move from exclusively closed adoptions, in which there is no contact between the adoptive parents and the birth parents, to various forms of open adoption, in which varying degrees of communication exist. Our general theme, namely, the dual function of adoption as a support system for surplus children as well as a supplier of children for infertile couples, is introduced and explored. Additionally, the various types of adoption are introduced, defined, and discussed in terms of the changing face of the institution. These include formal/informal, related/unrelated, domestic/intercountry, and foster child adoptions. The intersections of these categories are considered, as well as the manner in which such a wide variety of adoption types complicates the process of keeping track of all the adoptions that occur.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Poston, D: Children for Families or Families for Children “
1: Adoption as a Support System for Orphaned, Abandoned, or Voluntary Placed Children,- 2: History: The Changing Face of Adoption,- 3: Sources of Adoption Data,- 4: Adoption Behavior of U.S. Women,- 5: Demographic and Social Issues of Same Sex Adoptions,- 6: Intercountry Adoption to the United States,- 7: Intercountry Adoption: A Quantitative Analysis,- 8: Global Intercountry Adoption,- 9: Conclusions.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Ann Davis
- 2011, XV, 218 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherland
- ISBN-10: 9048189713
- ISBN-13: 9789048189717
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Englisch
Rezension zu „Poston, D: Children for Families or Families for Children “
The book is a valuable attempt to offer a documented response to a relatively long list of questions about adoption patterns, which usually remian unanswered. European Journal of Population 28:2 (2012)
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