Zusammenfassung
A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today.
Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the might that makes right and the law is very hard to find. The book follows the true stories of women who choose adoption for their babies, some of them making this choice multiple times. There are also stories from adoptive parents who relate their experiences with scams, disappointments, emotional and financial exploitation, and the dubious “assistance” of baby brokers. The process of adopting a baby involves struggle, uncertainty, and even heartache but, for many people, somehow manages to end happily when birth and adoptive parents create connections that respectfully and even joyfully meet their need for one another. The Baby Market provides welcome encouragement and much needed information about how to avoid the numerous pitfalls inherent in adoption and offers suggestions for the reform of a corrupted adoption system.
Schlagworte
Adoption Parenting adopted children adoption challenges adopted child psychology adopted family adoptee adopting parents adoption anxiety adoption culture adoption depression adoption triad adoptive parent open adoption parenting insecurity teenage adoption multiethnic adoption multiracial adoption child rearing children healing children trauma closed adoption foster care children birth mother birth parent infant developmentKeywords
foster care- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 159–164 Epilogue 159–164
- 165–168 Index 165–168
- 169–170 About the Author 169–170
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- „... and parenting. There were also training sessions focused on the specifics of working with the ...” „... Aleena and Leon a chance, but it didn’t appear that they were interested in parenting their son. They ...” „... parenting Ariana. They knew the state would have to give Krista time and that there would be a period of ...”
- „... interest in knowing more about adoption explore all their options, including parenting, and, when ...” „... decisions and plans regarding parenting. Prospective adoptive parents could save time and money on ...”
- „... these women are parenting a few of the children they have given birth to, but many of them have lost ...”
- „... alcohol use.Birth mother has five children, not parenting any of them.Asking for $900 a month living ...”
- „... high income and successful parenting and that this approach will prevent an abundance of extremely ...”
- „... other possibilities, including parenting, when making their decision about adoption. This was during the ...”