Purpose: A rich and heterogeneous body of knowledge about adoption breakdown has
accumulated in recent years. The goal of this article is to review the existing research …

With the rise in family diversity over the past few decades, interest in nontraditional family life
has increased significantly among social science researchers (Lamb, 1999). Of particular …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

ContextInternational adoption involves more than 40 000 children a year moving among
more than 100 countries. Before adoption, international adoptees often experience …

Page 1 "This illuminating book should help-and comfort-adoptees, adoptive parents and others
who search for their identity."-Publishers Weekly BEING ADOPTED The Lifelong Search for …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

The focus of this paper is adoptive identity, the sense of who one is as an adopted person.
The paper first considers how identity has been shaped by recent social changes, and then …

Considerable debate has arisen in the professional literature regarding the possibility of
increased psychological risk in adopted children compared with nonadopted children. A …

This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and
the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating …

How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the
authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high …