Eastern European adoption
Subtitle: policies, practice, and strategies for change
By: Josephine A. Ruggiero.
Publisher: AldineTransaction, A Division of Transaction Publishers; Transaction Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780202309767
Subjects: Adoption -- Europe, Eastern; Adoption -- Former Soviet republics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to international adoption from Eastern Europe; title: Adoptions from Eastern Europe to the United States; title: Understanding what motivates Americans to adopt a child or children internationally; title: Similarities and differences in issues relevant to international and domestic adoption; title: Studying older-child and sibling group adoptions from Eastern Europe; title: Parents speak about the process of international adoption and their satisfaction-dissatisfaction with their decision to adopt internationally; title: Embarking on the journey of a lifetime : breathing life into the data through case narratives; title: Case narratives of satisfied adopters politics and planning in the Holy City; title: Case narratives of families who typically feel "caught in the middle"; title: Case narratives of adopters whose children have many, serious problems; title: Parents speak about state and federal government involvement in regulating agencies engaged in placing; title: International adoptees with Americans; title: Interventions and policy shifts; title: Impacts of existing adoption policies and practices : when private troubles become public issues; title: Mapping changes needed in adoption policy and practice; title: Solutions and strategies that are linked to clients' rights and agencies' responsibilities; title: Producing positive change for the long run; title: Bringing about changes that are in the best interest of adoptees and their adoptive families; title: Epilogue : out of the past and into the future; title: Postscript : a survey approach: how? why? who?