Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children : Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers 9781498509633, 9781498509626

Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder 9781948283083, 9781948283076

*First Place Winner of the Royal Dragonfly Award in How-To Books, First Place Winner of the Royal Dragonfly Award in Psy

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Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption 9780822394952

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption fro

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International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children 9780814764473

In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly gl

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Adoption beyond borders: how international adoption benefits children 9780190247799, 0190247797

Now Available in Paperback,Adoption Beyond Bordersendorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by e

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The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender 9780520937413

Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up—or breakdown—of the American family, the famil

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Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China 9781503600126

It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western ai

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Employed Mothers and Their Children 9781317943464, 0824063449, 9780824063443

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China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy 9780226352657

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China thro

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The Circulation of Children : Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru [1 ed.] 9780822391500, 9780822341819

Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historic

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Talking with Young Children About Adoption 9780300194326

Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their child about adoption as early as possible. But no guid

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