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- 159–164 Epilogue 159–164
- 165–168 Index 165–168
- 169–170 About the Author 169–170
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- „... F O U R T E E NWhat about All the Kids in Foster Care?120 • Chapter FourteenFamilies who did ...” „... there are so many children in foster care who need homes. Yes, there are many, many wonderful children ...” „... in foster care, but they are not legally free for adoption when they come into care. This means that ...”
- „... much the same as the way we want to blame a negligent caseworker when a child in foster care is harmed ...” „... professionals.The foster care system struggles to meet the needs of the children in its care despite ongoing ...” „... of changing the negligent or abusive behavior toward their children that resulted in the foster care ...”
- „... eye-opening early years of my career were spent working in the foster care unit of the Michigan Department of ...” „... foster care and adoption systems both work with women who are planning an adoption for their babies. Most ...” „... have a history of child abuse or neglect and whose other chil-dren are currently in the foster care ...”
- „... ability to provide him with even the most basic care.Aleena managed to stay clean for almost four months ...” „... a private or an international adoption, but they had heard about their state’s foster ...” „... Department of Children, Youth and Families and what foster parents could expect from the agency and the legal ...”
- „... different caseworkers during her years in foster care, and the latest one had been on the job only a few ...” „... to her first foster home.As children often do, Lindy believed she was to blame and that being sent ...” „... away was a punishment she must have deserved. Her first foster mother was kind, and Lindy began to warm ...”
- „... distressed by much of what she learned about the foster care system. Her eyes and heart were opened wide by ...” „... , “Why aren’t you working with the state?” The foster care system had an abundance of children, and one ...” „... the foster care system would be denied a mother like Julia. It also seemed regrettable that Julia was ...”
- „... become part of the foster care system. The parents lost any sense of control over their own and their ...” „... spend years in foster care while the system tried to reunite the family. When that goal proved ...” „... desire to provide care for her is disingenuous. Of course, we all do want the woman to be well cared for ...”
- „... recalculates how best to proceed.I ask her if she has considered working with the foster care system, urge her ...” „... foster care system, but I suspect that’s rarely the case.There are many inequities in our society, but ...” „... families. Most of them are white, with college educations, satisfying careers, access to good medical care ...”
- „... the Kids in Foster Care? 119Chapter 15 Working with the Child Welfare System 126Chapter 16 Not to ...” „... about the Siblings? 101Chapter 13 Matt and Hannah: A Foster-to-Adopt Story 109Chapter 14 What about All ...” „... are many people who have been instrumental in helping me throughout my career. I am grateful to my ...”
- „... weeks.A few days later, Owen and Kira met with Lindy and her foster mother in the attorney’s office. He ...” „... had told them that Lindy was sixteen, had been in foster homes for the past five years, was very quiet ...” „... bump. Lindy was clearly shy, and the situation made Owen and Kira feel shy as well, so the foster ...”
- „... foster care system. The more accessible—and much more relevant—“statistic” currently available on Google ...” „... the adoption, helping the pregnant woman find the medical care and other services she needed, helping ...” „... whenever anyone wanted to talk. I knew that our agency provided an abundance of time and care to our ...”
- „... full or half siblings are being raised in different adoptive homes or in the state foster care ...” „... had a teenage daughter who had entered the foster care system at age two and eventually been adopted ...” „... , and that she also had an eight-year-old son who was currently in foster care. If Elena had not been ...”
- „... Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, 2, 3, 126, 153166 • IndexIndex ...” „... programs, 10, 74-77, 109-112, 115-18, 120-25foster care, 2, 39-43, 120; with goal of reunifying children ...” „... with their birth families, 121foster home placement, 11, 120gay and lesbian couples. See adoption by ...”
- „... book, The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, was a ...” „... educate the general public about some of the hard realities inherent in the foster care and adoption ...”
- „... to work with the state foster care system.John and HannahJohn and Hannah and Luca and Ariana are a ...” „... there have been improvements in the foster-to-adopt process since then, it remains a necessarily risky ...”
- „... The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, published in 2018 ...”