Adoption - The Search for a New Parenthood (Hardcover)

Gary Diamond, an American-trained developmental paediatrician, has along with professional colleagues over the past 15 years counselled and travelled to orphanages around the world in the service of adoptive parents, interested in evaluating the child pre-adoption in his/her native setting, often being in foster care or orphanages in a variety of countries in Eastern Europe and Central America. The book is a collection of 25 true accounts of adoption, post adoption and adolescent and adult experiences with adoption, and presents a unique chronicle of the life cycle of the adoptive family and the adopted individual, with the added dimension of actual accounts of orphanage life. The book, and the stories within, are a chronicle of an individual's search for identity, which is a universal theme. The book originates in Israel, where adoptive families actually send physicians, trained in child development, to countries to examine children offered for adoption, enabling adoption professionals to acquire long-standing and intimate insights, into the process of adoption, from its very early stages, when institutionalised children are first exposed to visiting professionals and prospective adoptive parents.

General

Imprint:	nova science publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2014
Authors:	Gary Diamond • Eva Arbel
Dimensions:	260 x 180 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
ISBN-13:	978-1-63117-710-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
LSN:	1-63117-710-9
Barcode:	9781631177101

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