Overview
- Analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees thereby using historical as well as current data.
- Provides trends and analyses of domestic adoptions and intercountry adoptions in the U. S.
- Provides data issues in the study of child adoption.
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 29)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Demographic Analysis Of Adoptions In The United States
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Front Matter
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Intercountry Adoptions
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system (AFCARS)
- Adoption statistics
- Adoptive parents
- China
- Domestic interracial adoptions
- Eastern European adoptions
- Family court system
- Gay males and lesbians
- Hague adoption convention
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoptions
- Latin America
- National survey of adoptive parents (NSAP)
- Precursors to U.S. adoption laws
- Race and ethnicity on adoption behavior
- Same sex adoptions
- The national center for health statistics
- U.S. 2000 Census
About this book
Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types of adoptions-domestic adoptions, private and public through the foster care system, and intercountry adoptions-differ? Domestic trends include a shift to open adoptions and a notable increase in "hard to place", foster care adoptions-typically older, siblings, minorities, with physical, educational, or emotional challenges. Adoptive parents are increasingly all ages (including grandparents); all types of marriages (single, married and same-sex couples); all income levels, with subsidized adoptions for children who would otherwise remain in foster or institutional care. Intercountry adoptions have followed waves, pushed by wars and political or economic crises in the sending country, and pulled by the increasing demand from the U. S.  Currently there is a decrease in intercountry adoptions from Asia and Eastern Europe with a possible fifth wave from Africa with the greatest number from Ethiopia. This is a resource for family sociologists, demographers, social workers, advocates for children and adoptive parents, as well as those who are interested in the continuing research in adoptions.
Reviews
The book is a valuable attempt to offer a documented response to a relatively long list of questions about adoption patterns, which usually remian unanswered.
European Journal of Population 28:2 (2012)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children for Families or Families for Children
Book Subtitle: The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S.
Authors: Mary Ann Davis
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8972-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8971-7Published: 12 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3793-8Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8972-4Published: 12 August 2011
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 220
Topics: Family, Demography, Sociology, general