Adoption of Non-White Children: The Experience of a British Adoption Project, Raynor Lois
Автор: Moody Anne Название: The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption ISBN: 153810802X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538108024 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 52090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider`s tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces—poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence—that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Focusing particularly on the experiences of those who have lost their children to adoption, Briggs analyzes the circumstances under which African American and Native mothers in the United States and indigenous and poor women in Latin America have felt pressed to give up their children for adoption or have lost them involuntarily.
The dramatic expansion of transracial and transnational adoption since the 1950s, Briggs argues, was the result of specific and profound political and social changes, including the large-scale removal of Native children from their parents, the condemnation of single African American mothers in the context of the civil rights struggle, and the largely invented "crack babies" scare that inaugurated the dramatic withdrawal of benefits to poor mothers in the United States. In Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina, governments disappeared children during the Cold War and then imposed neoliberal economic regimes with U.S. support, making the circulation of children across national borders easy and often profitable. Concluding with an assessment of present-day controversies surrounding gay and lesbian adoptions and the struggles of immigrants fearful of losing their children to foster care, Briggs challenges celebratory or otherwise simplistic accounts of transracial and transnational adoption by revealing some of their unacknowledged causes and costs.
Автор: Montgomery Mark, Powell Irene Название: Saving International Adoption: An Argument from Economics and Personal Experience ISBN: 082652172X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826521729 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government officials, international bureaucrats, and social commentators claim these adoptions are not "in the best interests" of the child. They claim that adoption deprives children of their "birth culture," threatens their racial identities, and even encourages widespread child trafficking. Celebrity adopters are publicly excoriated for stealing children from their birth families. This book argues that opposition to adoption ostensibly based on the well-being of the child is often a smokescreen for protecting national pride. Concerns about the harm done by transracial adoption are largely inconsistent with empirical evidence. As for trafficking, opponents of international adoption want to shut it down because it is too much like a market for children. But this book offers a radical challenge to this view--that is, what if instead of trying to suppress market forces in international adoption, we embraced them so they could be properly regulated? What if the international system functioned more like open adoption in the United States, where birth and adoptive parents can meet and privately negotiate the exchange of parental rights? This arrangement, the authors argue, could eliminate the abuses that currently haunt international adoption. The authors challenge the prevailing wisdom with their economic analyses and provocative analogies from other policy realms. Based on their own family's experience with the adoption process, they also write frankly about how that process feels for parents and children.
Автор: Harrison Valerie I., D`Angelo Kathryn Peach Название: Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces ISBN: 143991995X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439919958 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
For decades, Katie D’Angelo and Valerie Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However, when Katie and her husband, who are white, adopted Gabriel, a biracial child, Katie’s conversations with Val, who is black, were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes grew from the two friends trying to understand each other’s perspectives to a mother navigating, with input from her friend, how to equip a child with the tools that will best serve him as he grows up in a white family.
Through lively and intimate back-and-forth exchanges, the authors share information, research, and resources that orient parents and other community members to the ways race and racism will affect a black child’s life—and despite that, how to raise and nurture healthy and happy children. These friendly dialogues about guarding a child’s confidence and nurturing positive racial identity form the basis for Do Right by Me. Harrison and D’Angelo share information on transracial adoption, understanding racism, developing a child’s positive racial identity, racial disparities in healthcare and education, and the violence of racism.
Do Right by Me also is a story about friendship and kindness, and how both can be effective in the fight for a more just and equitable society.
Автор: Goodfellow Aaron Название: Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship ISBN: 0823266036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823266036 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 82770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography of gay men and the families they have formed. In a culture that places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity, Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal contracts and the public performances of care replace biological birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers? Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in this field, four chapters—each presenting a particular picture of paternity—explore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption, surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established biological, theological, and legal images of the family often thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life. Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each carefully researched case examines gay fatherhood through life narratives. Painstakingly theorized, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship contends that gay families are one of the most important areas to which social scientists might turn in order to understand how law, popular culture, and biology are simultaneously made manifest and interrogated in everyday life. By focusing specifically on gay fathers, Goodfellow produces an anthropological account of how paternity, sexuality, and masculinity are leveraged in relations of care between gay fathers and their children.
Автор: Compton Rebecca Название: Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children ISBN: 0190247797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190247799 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides a ringing endorsement of international adoption based on comprehensive evidence from social and biological sciences paired with the author`s first-hand experience visiting a Kazakhstani orphanage for nearly a year. A balanced account of the evidence supports international adoption as a viable means of promoting child welfare.
Автор: Wang Leslie K. Название: Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China ISBN: 1503600114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503600119 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China--but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this "outsourced intimacy" operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind.
Outsourced Children reveals the different care standards offered in Chinese state-run orphanages that were aided by Western humanitarian organizations. Wang explains how such transnational partnerships place marginalized children squarely at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas. While Western societies view childhood as an innocent time, unaffected by politics, this book explores how children both symbolize and influence national futures.
Автор: Wang Leslie K. Название: Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China ISBN: 0804799016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804799010 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China--but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this "outsourced intimacy" operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind.
Outsourced Children reveals the different care standards offered in Chinese state-run orphanages that were aided by Western humanitarian organizations. Wang explains how such transnational partnerships place marginalized children squarely at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas. While Western societies view childhood as an innocent time, unaffected by politics, this book explores how children both symbolize and influence national futures.
Автор: Gill, Jungyun Название: Unequal motherhoods and the adoption of asian children ISBN: 1498509622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498509626 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 179320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of class, race, and nationality and bringing to light the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups.
Автор: Compton Rebecca Название: Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children ISBN: 0190914815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190914813 Издательство: Oxford Academ Цена: 17410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides a ringing endorsement of international adoption based on comprehensive evidence from social and biological sciences paired with the author`s first-hand experience visiting a Kazakhstani orphanage for nearly a year. A balanced account of the evidence supports international adoption as a viable means of promoting child welfare.
Автор: Mcfarlane, Andrew Reardon, Madeleine Laing, Alexander Название: Child protection and the family court: what you need to know ISBN: 1526505975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526505972 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Child Protection and the Family Court: What you Need to Know an established, invaluable, guide to the complex area of public child law with a focus on providing a clear and practical explanation of the law and procedure with an examination of the key cases and an emphasis on fact-based examples. Fully updated and revised, the third edition builds on its predecessors following the bedding in of various changes in law including the creation of the Family Law Court, the introduction of further provisions in the Public Law Outline and the further development of case law and practice. Key changes since the last edition that are covered include: - The creation of the Family Court in 2014 - The introduction of the Public Law Outline and the 26-week 'time limit' for care proceedings - The introduction of the Child Arrangements Programme for private law - Significant case law developments in a number of areas, including in particular the court's approach to decision-making in cases involving adoption/ placement for adoption (with consideration of the Supreme Court decision in Re B 2013] UKSC 33 and Re B-S 2013] EWCA Civ 1146), and in the approach to be taken when the child or parents are nationals of a foreign country - Development of case law and guidance in cases involving 'radicalisation' - A new chapter on Special Guardianship which will be of particular interest to those (eg grandparents) who find themselves involved in legal proceedings but without access to legal aid - More extensive use of diagrams, charts, etc in order to widen the book's appeal to a broader audience including social workers, teachers and medical professionals as well as junior/non-specialist lawyers.
Автор: Aubrey E Watson Название: Foster Children & Youth in Congregate Care Settings: Overview, Issues, & Reduction Efforts ISBN: 1634853490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634853491 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 83410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: About 14 percent of the more than 400,000 children in foster care nationwide lived in congregate care at the end of fiscal year 2013, according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data. This book examines how selected states have reduced their use of congregate care; and some challenges with reducing congregate care placements, and efforts HHS has taken to help states reduce congregate care.
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