(DOWNLOAD) "Openness in Adoption: What We Know So Far--a Critical Review of the Literature (Report)" by Social Work * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Openness in Adoption: What We Know So Far--a Critical Review of the Literature (Report)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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As many as 100 million people in the United States have adoption within their immediate families--a third of the nation (Pertman, 2000).Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation (2000), explained how adoption was once a clandestine process shrouded in shame and secrecy but is rapidly metamorphosing into a radically new process, accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural and multiethnic society. Adoption is helping us redefine our understanding of "family." Increasing numbers of new adoptions in the United States today do not require the unsealing of records or reunions for everyone to know the truth about them. Birth mothers and birth fathers, when involved, are choosing their children's adoptive parents and insisting on greater and greater levels of communication and interaction: open adoption. Pertman (2001) maintained that growing numbers of adoptive parents are overcoming their insecurities and realizing that this remarkable new family structure is best for everyone involved--especially their children. The empirical evidence on the effects of openness in adoption is only now being introduced to the debate (Berry, Barth, & Needell, 1998). HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF TRENDS IN OPEN ADOPTION
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