Ethics in American adoption
By: L. Anne Babb ; foreword by Randolph Severson.
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Adoption -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.; Child welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.; Professional ethics -- United States.; Social ethics -- United States.
Description: Destined to be seminal in the fields of ethics and adoption, this book offers numerous case studies describing what is wrong with America's adoption system, illustrating what the lack of applied ethical standards in adoption does to adoptees and to those who love them, and raising many questions about what adoption facilitators are doing, who is accountable for what they are doing, and whose interests they are serving.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index.