Author, Marlene Webber traveled across North America interviewing all different types of families in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of what family and adoption means to individuals. Webber uses real life experiences of adoptive families, including her own, to explain and illuminate the problems plaguing the adoption world.
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Well worth reading! Adoption and child welfare issues.,
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This review is from: As If Kids Mattered: What's Wrong in the World of Child Protection and Adoption (Paperback)
This book is excellent for anyone who is interested in child welfare and adoption issues. I would recommend it to anyone thinking of adopting thru the child welfare system. She includes stories from a range of families and presents issues that have impacted their lives and the adoption process. Stories from single parents, couples, lesbian/gays, disabled families are well-balanced. She touches on issues involved in adoption through the "child welfare system". Altho she is from Canada she includes issues from the US. Great insight.
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"I'm infertile. So what?" read T-shirts worn by a Japanese contingent at the 1995 international women's conference in Beijing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adoption arrangers, white adopters, single adopters, adoptive ones, specialty agencies, adoptive parenting, adoption world, transracial adoption, open adoption, gay adoptions, waiting kids, intercountry adoption, international adoption, system kids, adoptive families Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, British Columbia, African Americans, Elmy Martinez, North America, David Aiello, Elizabeth Bartholet, Pat O'Brien, Gale Allen, Jesse Williams, Adoptable Children, Jan Waldron, Latin America, Marilyn Shinyei, Pam Soden, San Francisco, South Korea, Indian Family Doctrine, Linda Miles, Multiethnic Placement Act, Phyllis Rogers New!
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"I'm infertile. So what?" read T-shirts worn by a Japanese contingent at the 1995 international women's conference in Beijing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adoption arrangers, white adopters, single adopters, adoptive ones, specialty agencies, adoptive parenting, adoption world, transracial adoption, open adoption, gay adoptions, waiting kids, intercountry adoption, international adoption, system kids, adoptive families Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, British Columbia, African Americans, Elmy Martinez, North America, David Aiello, Elizabeth Bartholet, Pat O'Brien, Gale Allen, Jesse Williams, Adoptable Children, Jan Waldron, Latin America, Marilyn Shinyei, Pam Soden, San Francisco, South Korea, Indian Family Doctrine, Linda Miles, Multiethnic Placement Act, Phyllis Rogers New!
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- Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff on page 21, page 160, and Back Matter
- Giving Away Simone by Jan L. Waldron on page 72, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reinventing The Family: Lesbian and Gay Parents by Laura Benkov on page 92, page 95, and Back Matter
- Women as Wombs by Janice Raymond on page 16, page 195, and Back Matter
- The Dark Side of Adoption by Marsha Riben on page 79, and Back Matter
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