Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as `triangular families′ which openness generates. The last chapter reaches some general conclusions and discusses implications for future adoption practice.

Grotevant, Harold D.

McRoy, Ruth G.

Parenting & Relationships

Sage Publications, Inc.

Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy provide a thorough review of the issues involved in openness in adoption and a clear description of the methods and results of the landmark research project they led. They provide rich data from an exceptional sample of adoptees, their adoptive parents and their birth mothers, and provide a perspective of their experiences as `triangular families′ which openness generates. The last chapter reaches some general conclusions and discusses implications for future adoption practice.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

The publication of the new supplement brings the Encyclopedia up-to-date with the most current concerns in social work. With over 400 pages of new information, the supplement features new entries on timely topics such as managed care and social work, electronic technologies and the Internet, spirituality in social work, the working poor, and more- a total of 30 new entries, 15 new biographies, and 65 updates.
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Encyclopedia of Social Work: 1997 Supplement(19th Edition)

Colby, Ira C.

García, Alejandro

Videka-Sherman, Lynn

Natl Assn of Social Workers Pr

The central issue posed in this book is whether the interests of abused and neglected children are best served by family preservation or adoption. The two authors take up opposing sides of the argument, each offering a view on whether truly dysfunctional families should always remain together.

Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests? (Controversies in Public Policy)

Altstein, Howard

Sociology

Georgetown Univ Pr

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. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, Ruth G. McRoy examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs. She provides practical recommendations and pays particular attention to the concerns of African American children. Claiming that there is insufficient evidence that family preservation actually works, Howard Altstein counters that children from truly dysfunctional families should be given the chance for stable lives through adoption rather than left in limbo.

Georgetown University Press

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues

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Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

Encyclopedia of Social Work: 1997 Supplement(19th Edition)

Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests? (Controversies in Public Policy)

Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests? (Controversies in Public Policy)

Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues