Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America

Sep 5, 2001
Paperback
US $17.00
CAN $18.50
UK £11.99
ISBN: 9780465056514
ISBN-10: 0465056512
Published by Basic Books

Description

Adoption is both sweeping the nation and changing it, accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural and multiethnic country and helping to redefine our understanding of "family." Adoption Nation is essential reading for adoptive families, for anyone contemplating adopting a child, and for everyone touched by this extraordinary cultural transformation.

Reviews

"A wide-ranging look at open, international, and multiracial adoption.… Essential reading for those in the adoption triad concerned about their rights and about knowing which special interest groups mean to deny them."
— Chicago Tribune

"A comprehensive and humane book about how adoption is changing families-indeed the very idea of family." Ellen Goodman
— Ellen Goodman Boston Globe

""Adoption Nation" is a wonderful book that I urge academics, policy-makers, and general readers to use; it is a great read. … I will never think about adoption in the same way after reading "Adoption Nation.""
— Professor Robert Drago, Labor Studies and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University

"Adam Pertman's meticulous research and graceful prose make "Adoption Nation" a must-read for everyone interested in the way adoption is transforming the American family. His book has been invaluable to me."
— Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of Hawaii-Manoa

""Adoption Nation offers the reader what can be found nowhere else: a fascinating, comprehensive overview of adoption in American today. Teachers and students in many fields - from history to social work to law -- should turn to "Adoption Nation" for the indispensable context it provides for their studies."
— Elizabeth Samuels, University of Baltimore Law School

""Adoption Nation" puts forth the issues in a manner that is at once informed and concerned. Pertman nicely balances fact with illustration. It is these "real people" illustrations that make the issues understandable to the students in my classes."
— Debrah Lewis Fravel, PhD., CFLE, Human Development and Family Studies, Indiana University

""Adoption Nation" is a gift to the curious minds on campuses nationwide starving for the truth about systems that impact America's families and children. The (sometimes) mysterious adoption arena is gravely limited in powerful and factual academic resources, and this text fills those gaps in understanding the life and process of growing families in our country."
— Liz Dumbaugh Martin, MSSW, Director, University Training Consortium Project Kent School of Social Work/University of Louisville

"I would recommend Mr. Pertman's fine book not only to those personally touched by the adoption experience, but also to anyone who works with individuals and families, or who teaches about them in a wide variety of disciplines. "Adoption Nation" offers an illuminating view of issues which are of central importance in the lives of millions of people. The book is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive and illuminating depiction of adoption in the USA, its history, present state, and, one hopes, its future."
— Howard Katz, M.D., Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst; Instructor, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry; Supervising Analyst, the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

"Pertman's research is meticulous and his vision of more humane adoption laws and practices is inspiring. Adoption Nation will be useful for courses in Sociology, Women's Studies, and public policy that take up issues concerning family formation in the contemporary United States."
— Mary Lyndon Shanley, Professor of Political Science, Vassar College, and uthor of Making Babies, Making Families

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