Adoption - Paperback - 9780737764352

Editor Diane Andrews Henningfeld takes your readers on a tour of various cultures' views on adoption. Essays explore global trends in adoption, addressing such topics as transnational adoption and celebrity adoption. Readers will explore corruption, legal and social issues faced by same-sex adoptive parent, and the role of gender, race, and ethnicity in adoption. Essays examine the rights of adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees. Primary sources, including speeches and government documents, join essays from international magazines and news sources for a truly panoramic view. Helpful features include an annotated table of contents, a world map and country index, bibliography, and subject index.

• | Author: Diane Andrews Henningfeld
• | Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 24, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 073776435X
• | ISBN-13: 9780737764352