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The children money can buy : stories from the frontlines of foster care and adoption / Anne Moody.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]Description: vi, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538108024
  • 153810802X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Foster care -- Why do I want this job? -- Service plans -- Who are these parents and children? -- Foster home highs and lows -- The cycle of dysfunction -- Boy troubles -- Termination of parental rights -- Making my escape -- Agency adoption -- The home study process -- Adoption is the good thing that happens -- Adoption disruptions -- "Doing good" isn't always good -- The need for open adoption -- Finding just the right home -- Adoptive parenthood and sisterhood -- Children are exactly who they are meant to be -- How to talk about adoption -- A homeland tour : honoring your child's heritage -- A sister's journey of the heart -- Awkward (and worse) encounters for adoptive families -- Jocelyn¿s birth mother -- Adoption connections -- Our own adoption agency -- Birth parent counseling etiquette -- Two open adoptions -- Choosing an adoptive family -- Money matters -- Scammers -- Can foster care and adoption work together? -- Changes -- A battle for gay adoption -- Baby brokers -- The ethics of international adoption -- The ethics of foster care -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 362.733 M817 Available 33111008707271
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in the foster care and adoption systems. Special attention is given to the practice of "baby brokering" and the accompanying exorbitant finder's fees and financial incentives encouraging birth mothers to relinquish (or pretend that they are planning to relinquish) their babies that permeate much of U.S. infant adoption today.



The Children Money Can Buy illuminates the worlds of foster care and adoption through the personal stories Moody witnessed and experienced in her many years working in the foster care and adoption systems. These compelling stories about real people and situations illustrate larger life lessons about the way our society values--and fails to value--parents and children. They explore the root of ethical problems which are not only financially driven but reflect society's basic belief that some children are more valuable than others. Finally, Moody makes a plea for change and gives suggestions about how the foster care and adoption systems could work together for the benefit of children and families.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Foster care -- Why do I want this job? -- Service plans -- Who are these parents and children? -- Foster home highs and lows -- The cycle of dysfunction -- Boy troubles -- Termination of parental rights -- Making my escape -- Agency adoption -- The home study process -- Adoption is the good thing that happens -- Adoption disruptions -- "Doing good" isn't always good -- The need for open adoption -- Finding just the right home -- Adoptive parenthood and sisterhood -- Children are exactly who they are meant to be -- How to talk about adoption -- A homeland tour : honoring your child's heritage -- A sister's journey of the heart -- Awkward (and worse) encounters for adoptive families -- Jocelyn¿s birth mother -- Adoption connections -- Our own adoption agency -- Birth parent counseling etiquette -- Two open adoptions -- Choosing an adoptive family -- Money matters -- Scammers -- Can foster care and adoption work together? -- Changes -- A battle for gay adoption -- Baby brokers -- The ethics of international adoption -- The ethics of foster care -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements.

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