Adoption Nation

Author : Adam Pertman
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1558327665
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Nation written by Adam Pertman and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A treasure. It is the most complete book on adoption—ever—by one of the most eloquent, knowledgeable experts in the field.” —Sharon Roszia, co-author of The Open Adoption Experience and program manager of the Kinship Center With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families. For the first edition of this groundbreaking examination of adoption and its impact on us all, Pertman won awards from many organizations, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law, the American Adoption Congress, the Century Foundation, Holt International, and the US Congress. In this updated edition, Pertman reveals how changing attitudes and laws are transforming adoption—and thereby American society—in the twenty-first century. “Groundbreaking . . . courageous, penetrating, engaging, and deeply personal. —David Brodzinksy, Ph.D., co-author of Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self “Creative, insightful, and a must-read.” —Ruth McRoy, Ph.D., co-author of Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections “Pertman combines journalistic research and personal anecdotes in this stimulating overview of the trends and cultural ramifications of adoption.” —Publishers Weekly “A valuable experience for anyone, especially the adoptive parent.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Adam Pertman
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
ISBN 13 : 1558327169
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Nation written by Adam Pertman and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Pertman's award-winning book features updated information on every aspect of adoption and its changing role in American society. Pertman, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and father of two adopted children, offers an unflinching study of adoption policy and processes.

Author : Sara K. Dorow
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814721478
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Adoption written by Sara K. Dorow and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. 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.

Author : Adam Pertman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558327153
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Nation written by Adam Pertman and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on "The Today Show" and in People magazine: An adoptive father and award-winning journalist reports on the metamorphosis of adoption from a secretive, shameful procedure to an integral part of American family life.

Author : Adam Pertman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756753696
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Nation written by Adam Pertman and published by . This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption is rapidly metamorphosing into a radically new process that is changing America. It is accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural and multiethnic society, even as it helps redefine our understanding of "family," with the exponential growth of alternative lifestyles, from single to transracial to gay. Provides valuable insights into the pleasures and perils of adoption. Lays out the ways in which policymakers should revise our laws to improve the process of adoption, stop treating members of the "adoption triad" as 2nd-class citizens, and remove the obstacles that keep the children who most need permanent homes from getting them. Filled with dramatic real-life stories.

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479891169
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Families written by Catherine Ceniza Choy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814795900
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Adoption written by Laura Briggs and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adam Pertman
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 9780465056545
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Nation FCC How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America written by Adam Pertman and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Wayne Carp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Politics written by E. Wayne Carp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Measure 58 in Oregon in 1998 was a milestone in adoption reform. E. Wayne Carp here reveals the efforts of the radical adoptee rights organization Bastard Nation to pass this milestone initiative.

Author : Linda Seligmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804787255
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Links, Enduring Ties written by Linda Seligmann and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that Americans hold about families and how they are constituted. Seligmann explores whether or not new kinds of families and communities are emerging as a result of these adoptions, providing a compelling narrative on how adoptive families thrive and struggle to create lasting ties. Seligmann observed and interviewed numerous adoptive parents and children, non-adoptive families, religious figures, teachers and administrators, and adoption brokers. The book uncovers that adoption—once wholly stigmatized—is now often embraced either as a romanticized mission of rescue or, conversely, as simply one among multiple ways to make a family.