Adoption Issues

Adoptee

Bridge Less Traveled Twice Visited, A
Robert Andersen
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Written by adoptees for adoptees & highlights difficulties in the adoptive experience & suggests avenues for resolution. The authors both give their views on the effect of adoption in their lives including search & reunion and letting go.

 

Adoption Issues

Openness In Adoption: New Practices, New Issues
Ruth McRoy
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Comprehensive discussion of the issues involved in open adoptions and the findings of a pilot project designed to assess the consequences of openness in adoption for birthparents and adoptive parents.

 

Grief & Loss

Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages
Leo Buscaglia
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Freddie and the other leaves on his tree pass through the seasons and, with the coming of winter, fall to the ground. This warm and sympathetic parable explains the delicate balance between life and death. A good book for talking about grief and loss.

 

Infertility

Adopting After Infertility
Patricia Johnston
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The issues raised in this book are difficult ones. ADOPTING AFTER INFERTILITY examines the lifelong impact of building a family by adoption after experiencing infertility. Couples struggling to decide whether to adopt, those who have said yes to adoption, and parents of young children who have been adopted are the intended audience for this compassionate book. It will help you and your family make the decisions that are right for you. This is an excellent book by the acknowledged expert in the field.

 

Parenting

Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interest?
Ruth McRoy
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In this new volume, two distinguished professors of social work debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children.

 

Policy and Practice

Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
Adam Pertman
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Adoption, once a secret system shrouded in shame, is rapidly changing into a radically new process that is sweeping the nation. It is accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural and multiethnic society, even as it helps redefine our understanding of "family." Filled with up-to-the-minute information and a wealth of dramatic real-life stories, ADOPTION NATION provides valuable insights into the pleasures and perils of adoption, and how it affects almost all of our lives.

 

Adoption Subsidy
Tim O'Hanlon
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Adoption subsidies provide financial assistance, medical coverage and support services to families adopting special needs children. ADOPTION SUBSIDY gives detailed information on how to negotiate a subsidy agreement, appeal a decision, apply for retroactive payments after a final adoption decree, and respond to critics of subsidy programs.

 

Ethics in American Adoption
L. Anne Babb
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What constitutes ethical practices in adoption? The answer is not always clear, especially when you are trying to serve the best interests of the child, while still factoring in the needs of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees. This failure to identify and prioritize ethical standards produces inadequate, even fraudulent, treatment of those seeking adoption-related services. ETHICS IN AMERICAN ADOPTION is destined to be the seminal work in this field.

 

Further Dimensions in Child Placement: Current Practice in Residential Group and Adoption Collaboration
Kathryn Ziegler
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This book describes collaborative practice between residential care and adoption workers as it has emerged during the last decade. Based on interviews with practitioners, it shows some of the lessons learned from the experiences of the 1980s. Reports on expansions in the theoretical framework and in practice skills, and describes some agency responses that have resulted from collaborative efforts.

 

Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families
Susan Smith
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This book is focused on post-legal adoption services. It builds on the authors research and seeks to provide a knowledge base for work with troubled adoptive families. It explores the need for post-adoption services and for all helping professionals to be familiar with issues and challenges of those touched by adoption. Family/ parental challenges as well as challenges children present are discussed.

 

Wrongful Adoption
Madelyn Freundlich
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The past decade has seen an increase in cases where adoptive parents fail to receive accurate and complete information about a child's physical, emotional, or developmental problems—or about a child's birth family and history. In such cases, adoptive parents confronted with extremely expensive medical or mental health care, have sought assistance through the courts. WRONGFUL ADOPTION examines the history of disclosure, cases that have shaped the laws, key policy and practice issues, and recommendations for quality practices.

 

Special Needs

Emotional Disturbance in Adopted Adolescents: Origins and Development
Ruth G. McRoy
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This study was designed to identify familial and other contextual factors associated with the placement of adopted children in residential treatment for emotional disorders during the adolescent years.

 

Teens/Adult

Second Choice: Growing Up Adopted
Robert Anderson, M.D.
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A psychiatrist looks at his own black-market adoption giving two stories of his childhood. The first story is open, superficial, cheerful and excludes adoption. The other story is sad, secret, problematic, shameful, and includes adoption.

 

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