Download or read book Inside the Adoption Agency written by Jean Nelson-Erichsen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Adoption Agency provides a glimpse inside the fascinating world of international adoption and explains the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, which is revolutionizing a process that was previously uncontrolled and marred by scandal. "Jean Erichsen gives order to the often overwhelming mix of foreign and domestic requirements and provides the reader with many heart-warming and humorous moments as well." -Laura Kalish, attorney "Jean Erichsen has a lively and entertaining style of writing that makes this book hard to put down." -Sandra Carlson, LCSW "What I really appreciated about this book was how clearly it spelled out the total dependence of agencies and adoptive parents on the whims of the host countries." -Ruth Arnold, adoptive parent "This fascinating book will give the reader a renewed appreciation of the dedication and hard work by which trustworthy adoption professionals arrange for homeless children overseas to join their new American families. The Erichsens' unique historical perspective provides an understanding of why the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption will be coming into effect in this decade, in an effort to insure sound adoption agency practices with well prepared adoptive parents." -Deborah McCurdy, founder and supervisor of social work, Beacon Adoption Center Jean Erichsen is one of the leading pioneers of intercountry adoption. Part history lesson and part "how-to guide," this book provides valuable insights and information from someone who has witnessed and shaped intercountry adoption practice for the past twenty-five years. -Thomas Atwood, President and CEO, National Council For Adoption

Download or read book The Children s Bureau Legacy written by Administration on Children, Youth and Families and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive history of the Children’s Bureau from 1912-2012 in eBook form that shares the legacy of this landmark agency that established the first Federal Government programs, research and social reform initiatives aimed to improve the safety, permanency and well-being of children, youth and families. In addition to bios of agency heads and review of legislation and publications, this important book provides a critical look at the evolution of the Nation and its treatment of children as it covers often inspiring and sometimes heart-wrenching topics such as: child labor; the Orphan Trains, adoption and foster care; infant and maternal mortality and childhood diseases; parenting, infant and child care education; the role of women's clubs and reformers; child welfare standards; Aid to Dependent Children; Depression relief; children of migrants and minorities (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans), including Indian Boarding Schools and Indian Adoption Program; disabled children care; children in wartime including support of military families and World War II refugee children; Juvenile delinquency; early childhood education Head Start; family planning; child abuse and neglect; natural disaster recovery; and much more. Child welfare and related professionals, legislators, educators, researchers and advocates, university school of social work faculty and staff, libraries, and others interested in social work related to children, youth and families, particularly topics such as preventing child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption will be interested in this comprehensive history of the Children's Bureau that has been funded by the U.S. Federal Government since 1912.

Download or read book The Open Hearted Way to Open Adoption written by Lori Holden and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers common open adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.

Download or read book Welcome Home written by Lita Linzer Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a different racial/cultural background. The book documents every aspect of the adoption procedure—from working with “facilitators,” adoption agencies, and attorneys to mixed reactions over a child’s possible loss of heritage as the result of a transracial or multicultural adoption. Parents and adoptees offer unique, firsthand perspectives on the cautions and benefits of nontraditional adoption. Americans adopted more than 20,000 children from other countries in 2001, a number that reflects humanitarian motives, the desire to adopt a child from a specific country, and/or frustration with the domestic adoption system. Including a foreword by United States Representative Ted Strickland, Welcome Home! is a practical resource for anyone thinking of establishing a family or adding to their own. The book provides insight into the adoption process, open adoption, biracial adoption, adopting a special needs child, cultural attitudes, and how to handle an adopted child’s questions in later years. It also addresses specific adoption issues, including: how to verify an agency’s credentials; how an agency negotiates with the birth mother; state and country laws and practices; tax benefits; and expenses, including legal and medical costs; and includes research findings on the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) Welcome Home! tells the stories of: Naomi and Fred, an intermarried couple (she’s Jewish, he’s not) who adopted a Greek baby in 1962 “Tina” and “Lee,” a lesbian couple, who adopted a baby from China Marianne, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lund in Sweden, who adopted babies from Iran and Thailand—several years after her divorce Pamela, a divorced mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Viet Nam and China All of her biological children Mildred—Pamela’s mother and the children’s grandmother Karen, adoptive mother and national chairperson for Families for Russian and Ukrainian adoption (FRUA) William, adoptive father of miracle sisters from Romania and many more! Welcome Home! is an invaluable source of unusual insight for psychologists, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, adoption agencies, counselors, social workers, attorneys, physicians, academics, and, of course, anyone considering adoption.

Download or read book Adoption in America written by E. Wayne Carp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption." ---Choice "Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution." ---Library Journal "Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption." ---Adoptive Families "[T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research." ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.

Download or read book THE ART of ADOPTION written by David Livianu and published by Melador Publishers NY. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • We Make It Easy To Adopt. • All your adoption facts in one place for US families interested to adopt overseas, now on Google play books. • The best source for adoption analysis, procedures & contacts. • Download or read any PDF book and receive a free Google Play Audio Album: "Can I Adopt From Any of These 194 Countries?”, by David Livianu, 30 minutes, a $19.95 value. • This is an award winning series of adoption guides, in PDF format. • These PDF adoption books have been scholarly researched, prepared and annotated by David Livianu, a Romanian born American writer, humanitarian and musician. • These are the most important reading materials all prospective adoptive parents {and adoption specialists} should read and study, before embarking on an international adoption journey. • All presented materials have been deeply researched and carefully annotated. • There are 28 PDF books, (over 16,000 pages) covering all aspects of an international adoption {legal, cultural, social, procedural, financial, travel, contacts to government agencies and private adoption agencies}. • You can download or stream to your Android smart phone or tablet and start reading the simple steps, procedures, and yes contacts with addresses and phone numbers for government agencies in every country working with foreign prospective adoptive families. Here are the 28 titles written, compiled and annotated by David Livianu, now in PDF format: 1. A System For Post-Adoption Services, 25 pages 2. Adoption Dictionary in 7 languages, 193 pages 3. Adoption Phrase Guide in 7 languages, 121 pages 4. Adoption Services Harmonized to a Market Economy, 10 pages 5. Art of Adoption, 167 pages 6. Contacts: Adoption Officials In 65 Countries, 224 pages 7. Contacts: Foreign Consulates-Embassies In The U.S., 135 pages 8. Contacts: Immigration Centers In The U.S., 177 pages 9 . Contacts: U.S. Adoption Agencies for Domestic Adoptions, 1,270 pages 10. Contacts: U.S. Adoption Agencies for International Adoptions, 880 pages 11. Contacts: U.S. Consulates-Embassies Overseas, 63 pages 12. Learn to Adopt, a master course, 349 pages 13. Learn to Adopt From Bulgaria, 187 pages 14. Learn to Adopt From China, 203 pages 15. Learn to Adopt From Croatia, 319 pages 16. Learn to Adopt From the Czech Republic, 191 pages 17. Learn to Adopt From Hungary, 232 pages 18. Learn to Adopt From Poland, 374 pages 19. Learn to Adopt From Romania, 246 pages 20. Learn to Adopt From Russia, 1,331 pages 21. Learn to Adopt From Slovakia, 191 pages 22. Learn to Adopt From South Korea, 42 pages 23. Learn to Adopt From Ukraine, 157 pages 24. The Hague Convention & 51 Countries, 29 brochures-pamphlets-list of contacts, 2,835 pages 25. The U.S.A. & The Hague Convention for International Adoptions, 402 pages 26. U.S. Adoption Assistance by State, contacts, 169 pages 27. U.S. Government Guides, 22 brochures-pamphlets-notices, 862 pages 28. U.S. Laws & Statutes By State in the U.S., 1,502 pages • David Livianu is an advocate for orphans' rights and works in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova since 1989. • Livianu has been featured on the Barbara Walters show 20/20, Angels in Adoption. • Learn in a few minutes if you can adopt from a particular country, plus answer the how, where, and what, accessing legally adoptable orphans of all ages. • Your contribution is tax deductible and helps the orphans. • Questions, Contribution$, Need Help, Wanna Help? Let us know! • This material is provided only for educational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. • Follow all current and applicable local and international adoption laws, and consult a licensed attorney/adoption agency or appropriate government specialist.

Download or read book Fast Track Adoption written by Dr. Susan Burns and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most couples in the U.S. have to wait up to seven years to adopt an infant domestically--and all the expense and waiting doesn't always result in a successful adoption. Now, rather than relying on slow-paced and expensive adoption agencies, many couples are choosing to privately adopt a child. By eliminating the adoption agency, couples can customize and control their own adoption plan. Inside this book, couples will learn how becoming proactive in the adoption process may significantly speed up the adoption. Following the Fast Track method, readers will learn how to: - Establish a budget - Assemble a professional team - Obtain an approved home study - Prepare an effective family profile - Advertise for and talk to potential birth mothers - Detect warning signs for frauds and scams - Be prepared at the hospital With this book as their guide, potential parents can actively pick their own birth mother. By doing so, couples will save time and money, reduce stress, and, most importantly, find a baby to adopt.

Download or read book Finding Hope A Birthmother s Journey Into the Light written by Hope O. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. She lived with her son's adoptive mother while she was pregnant and pursued an open adoption. After her son was born, Hope tried to resume her life. But the difficulty of letting her child go gnawed at Hope. Even though she had it together on the outside--graduating college and excelling in her career--on the inside she was battling a destructive cycle of depression and addiction. When life was at its darkest, Hope managed to find her way back to the light. It's a journey she continues to this day. Now, in this love letter to her son, Hope shows how messy and chaotically beautiful adoption can be, by sharing the authentic details of her remarkable story. From her struggles, you'll see how community can help you rebuild and be reminded of how important it is to find your voice and speak up for what you need when life hands you unexpected difficulties.

Download or read book So You Want to Adopt Now What written by Sara Dormon and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in seven couples struggle with infertility. Other parents long to add another child to their family who needs a home. Whatever the reason, many couples who decide to pursue adoption do not realize the often unnerving, stressful, emotional ride it can be. Deciding to adopt means moving into uncharted territory. There are many emotional highs and lows, as well as psychological, mental and spiritual ramifications. The authors prepare prospective adoptive parents for the adoption process, from helping them examine their motives for adopting to making practical decisions about the type of adoption to pursue. They also explore the adoption process from the viewpoints of the prospective adoptive parents, the birth parents, the adoptee, attorneys and adoption agencies. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone considering adoption.

Download or read book Intercountry Adoption written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Adoption written by Kerry O'Halloran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis. It updates and extends the second edition published by Springer in 2009. From a standpoint of the development of adoption in England & Wales and the changes currently taking place there, it considers the process as it has evolved in other countries. It identifies themes of commonality and difference in the experience of adoption in a common law context as compared and contrasted with that of other countries. It looks at adoption in France, Sweden and other civil law countries, as well as Japan and elsewhere in Asia, including a focus on Islamic adoption. It examines the experience of indigenous people in New Zealand and Australia, contrasting the highly regulated legal process of modern western society with the traditional practice of indigenous communities such as the Maori. A new chapter studies adoption in China. The book uses the international Conventions and associated ECtHR case law to benchmark developments in national law, policy and practice and to facilitate a cross-cultural comparative analysis.

Download or read book There Are Babies to Adopt written by Christine Adamec and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of Americans who dream of having a family, adoption is the answer, and this indispensable, up-to-the-minute handbook will lead would-be parents smoothly through the entire process. Compassionately written by an expert who is herself an adoptive parent, it provides easy-to-follow information on every type of adoption -- independent, open, or confidential -- and family situation, including single-parent adoptions and adopting special needs kids, as well as: -- How long a wait to expect, and how to avoid delays -- Types of agencies, insurance, and costs -- Sensitive advice on first encounters with birth parents, and the reactions of friends, family, and strangers -- Preparing for the Home Study and writing the autobiography Features a complete, up-to-date bibliography and appendix directory of lawyers, agencies, support groups, and adoption organizations.

Download or read book Families for Black Children the Search for Adoptive Parents Programs and projects by A L Sandusky and others written by United States. Children's Bureau. Division of Research and Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Child Catchers written by Kathryn Joyce and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Joyce makes clear, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Adoption written by Christine Adamec and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on making an adoption application stand out, the latest adoption trends, and ways to spot scams, with profiles of real-life adopters and adoptees

Download or read book Adoption from Care written by Skivenes, Marit and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are weighed against parents’ rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents’ care.

Download or read book We Chose You written by Tony Dungy and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Family is Created by God God forms families in many different ways and sizes, but all are equally important and special. When adopted son Calvin needs to tell about his family for a class assignment, he discovers his parents were praying for him long before they chose him. Not only that, but God chose them for Calvin. It wasn't by chance and it wasn't an accident. It was according to His plan. We Chose You was written to communicate to all children, whether birthed or adopted, that they are chosen. That they are secure. That they are loved. This is a message every child needs to hear. Let this book give you the words to tell your child about your family's unique story.