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Children for Families or Families for Children - The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S. (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Children for Families or Families for Children - The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S. (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 29
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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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