Adoption : changing families, changing times /
Illustrating political and professional issues through stories and contributions from specialist practitioners, this book offers a fully rounded picture of adoption and explores some of the myths surrounding it.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Children and young people in care; Introduction; Adoption's rich tapestry unfolded: a family life in the 21st century; Troubled children and how to place them; Recruiting parents for hard-to-place children; It can only get better, and it did!; Good practice in adoption; Kinship care: a child in the family; Attachment theory and children's rights; 'I'll take her in'; The experience of birth parents; Introduction; Audrey and Aline's story; Lost and found: an adopted person's story.
- Letter to a social worker: reflections on motheringAdoption and family support: two means in pursuit of the same end; Life after adoption; Introduction; Adoption: perspectives from family members; A truer image; Avoiding disruption: concurrent planning; How post-adoption support can make adoption a success; Talking and telling; Keeping in touch: a different way of looking at post-adoption contact issues; With love; The politics of adoption; Introduction; The fiction.
