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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
It is common for adoptive families to need support and services
after adoption. Postadoption services can help families with a wide
range of issues. They are available for everything from learning
how to explain adoption to a preschooler, to helping a child who
experienced early childhood abuse, to supporting an adopted teens
search for identity. Experience with adoptive families has shown
that all family members can benefit from some type of postadoption
support. Families of children who have experienced trauma, neglect,
abuse, out-of-home care, or institutionalisation may require more
intensive services. This book serves as a guide to postadoption
assistance.
About 14 percent of the more than 400,000 children in foster care
nationwide lived in congregate care at the end of fiscal year 2013,
according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data.
This book examines how selected states have reduced their use of
congregate care; and some challenges with reducing congregate care
placements, and efforts HHS has taken to help states reduce
congregate care.
In nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from
public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book
discusses state laws that provide for access to both nonidentifying
and identifying information from an adoption record by adoptive
parents and adult adopted persons, while still protecting the
interests of all parties. Furthermore, the book discusses
postadoption contact agreements, which are are arrangements that
allow contact between a childs adoptive family and members of the
childs birth family or other persons with whom the child has an
established relationship, such as a foster parent, after the childs
adoption has been finalized. These arrangements, sometimes referred
to as cooperative adoption or open adoption agreements, can range
from informal, mutual understandings between the birth and adoptive
families to written, formal contracts.
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While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American
society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of
research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds,
racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda elaborates
significantly on that finding, specifically studying the effects of
the adoption of black and biracial children by white parents. She
incorporates diverse perspectives on transracial adoption by
concerned black Americans of various ages, including those who
lived through Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era. All her
interviewees have been involved either personally or professionally
in the lives of transracial adoptees, and they offer strategies for
navigating systemic racial inequalities while affirming the
importance of black communities in the lives of transracial
adoptive families. In Their Voices is for parents, child-welfare
providers, social workers, psychologists, educators, therapists,
and adoptees from all backgrounds who seek clarity about this
phenomenon. The author examines how social attitudes and federal
policies concerning transracial adoption have changed over the last
several decades. She also includes suggestions on how to revise
transracial adoption policy to better reflect the needs of
transracial adoptive families. Perhaps most important, In Their
Voices is packed with advice for parents who are invested in
nurturing a positive self-image in their adopted children of color
and the crucial perspectives those parents should consider when
raising their children. It offers adoptees of color encouragement
in overcoming discrimination and explains why a "race-neutral"
environment, maintained by so many white parents, is not ideal for
adoptees or their families.
While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American
society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of
research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds,
racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda elaborates
significantly on that finding, specifically studying the effects of
the adoption of black and biracial children by white parents. She
incorporates diverse perspectives on transracial adoption by
concerned black Americans of various ages, including those who
lived through Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era. All her
interviewees have been involved either personally or professionally
in the lives of transracial adoptees, and they offer strategies for
navigating systemic racial inequalities while affirming the
importance of black communities in the lives of transracial
adoptive families. In Their Voices is for parents, child-welfare
providers, social workers, psychologists, educators, therapists,
and adoptees from all backgrounds who seek clarity about this
phenomenon. The author examines how social attitudes and federal
policies concerning transracial adoption have changed over the last
several decades. She also includes suggestions on how to revise
transracial adoption policy to better reflect the needs of
transracial adoptive families. Perhaps most important, In Their
Voices is packed with advice for parents who are invested in
nurturing a positive self-image in their adopted children of color
and the crucial perspectives those parents should consider when
raising their children. It offers adoptees of color encouragement
in overcoming discrimination and explains why a "race-neutral"
environment, maintained by so many white parents, is not ideal for
adoptees or their families.
The Ugly One in the Middle is Alex Stan Campbell's story of the
fifty-year search for two people; His birth mother, and the
angelic, sensual woman of his dreams. Kind of romantic, right? But,
wait. There's humor, mystery and intrigue. Just before Stan's
sixteenth birthday, his Aunt Patsy let it slip that his mom and pop
did not conceive him. Quel horror His adoptive mom knew something
dark, but she wasn't talking. It didn't matter much...then.Stan's
top priorities of the day were drowning his bashfulness in wine and
rubbing alcohol. That didn't work. He threw up and fell down a lot.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000
transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a
predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique
perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and
construct their sense of identity along the intersection of
ethnicity, family, and national lines.
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's
attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a
social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on
their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question
comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling
candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer
couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the
inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the
emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to
others. This uniquely powerful book moves deftly between
heartbreaking memoir and illuminating meditation on parenting,
adoption and queerness in contemporary culture, stopping along the
way to consider recent science fiction film, camp horror
television, fiction and visual art. At the end, which could also be
the beginning of a new journey, Flanery asks whether we might all
imagine ourselves as ginger children-fragile, sensitive, more
easily hurt than we think possible, but with the hope that we are
also survivors, with greater powers of resilience than we know.
When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to
adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process?
How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal
with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers
from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these
issues.
Many families want to adopt, but do not have the large amount of
money it takes to complete a private domestic or international
adoption. Some quickly give up the idea of adopting and are left
feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and discouraged. Those who choose
to proceed often take out large loans or borrow from family and
friends which adds to the financial pressure on the family. Author
Julie Gumm shares proven strategies from her own experience as well
as from others that include applying for grants, creative
budgeting, and fundraising that prospective adoptive parents can
use to prepare for and avoid those high costs associated with
adoption.
Approximately 400,000 children were living in foster care in fiscal
year 2012, according to the most recent data available. The
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of
2008 is an omnibus child welfare bill designed to ensure greater
permanence and improve the well-being of children served by public
child welfare agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) oversees states' implementation of federal child welfare
requirements. This book examines steps states have taken to
implement selected provisions of the act and challenges they have
faced, and the extent to which HHS has monitored states' efforts.
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.
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