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Welcome Home! - An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader (Hardcover)
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Welcome Home! - An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader (Hardcover)
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Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! Welcome Home!
An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential
guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from
outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a
different racial/cultural background. The book documents every
aspect of the adoption procedurefrom working with facilitators,
adoption agencies, and attorneys to mixed reactions over a child's
possible loss of heritage as the result of a transracial or
multicultural adoption. Parents and adoptees offer unique,
firsthand perspectives on the cautions and benefits of
nontraditional adoption. Americans adopted more than 20,000
children from other countries in 2001, a number that reflects
humanitarian motives, the desire to adopt a child from a specific
country, and/or frustration with the domestic adoption system.
Including a foreword by United States Representative Ted
Strickland, Welcome Home! is a practical resource for anyone
thinking of establishing a family or adding to their own. The book
provides insight into the adoption process, open adoption, biracial
adoption, adopting a special needs child, cultural attitudes, and
how to handle an adopted child's questions in later years. It also
addresses specific adoption issues, including: how to verify an
agency's credentials; how an agency negotiates with the birth
mother; state and country laws and practices; tax benefits; and
expenses, including legal and medical costs; and includes research
findings on the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects
(N2CAP) Welcome Home! tells the stories of: Naomi and Fred, an
intermarried couple (she's Jewish, he's not) who adopted a Greek
baby in 1962 Tina and Lee, a lesbian couple, who adopted a baby
from China Marianne, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry
at the University of Lund in Sweden, who adopted babies from Iran
and Thailandseveral years after her divorce Pamela, a divorced
mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Viet
Nam and China All of her biological children MildredPamela's mother
and the children's grandmother Karen, adoptive mother and national
chairperson for Families for Russian and Ukrainian adoption (FRUA)
William, adoptive father of miracle sisters from Romania and many
more! Welcome Home! is an invaluable source of unusual insight for
psychologists, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists,
adoption agencies, counselors, social workers, attorneys,
physicians, academics, and, of course, anyone considering adoption.
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