Mastering adoption law and policy
By: Cynthia Hawkins DeBose, Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law
Series: Carolina Academic Press Mastering Series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781594606199
Subjects: United States; Law and legislation; Adoption
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: History of adoption; title: The history of the child welfare system and foster care; title: Types of adoption : public agency (foster care), private agency, and Independent (non-agency); title: Consent; title: Open adoption; title: Transracial adoption; title: Same sex adoption; title: The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) (25 U.S.C. Section 1901-1963 (2014)); title: Step-parent and second parent adoption; title: Kinship care and adoption; title: Safe haven laws; title: Snowflake adoption; title: Wrongful adoption tort; title: Adoption reforms; title: 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP) : domestic transracial adoption.