Families by law
Subtitle: an adoption reader
By: edited by Naomi R. Cahn and Joan Heifetz Hollinger.
Contributors: Cahn, Naomi R.; Hollinger, Joan H.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Adoption -- Law and legislation -- United States; Adoption -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: History of adoption in the United States; title: Creating adoptive families : legal and psychological requirements and consequences; title: Foster care and informal adoption; title: Adoption and confidentiality; title: Adoption with continuing contact : "open adoption"; title: The frontiers of adoption; title: Feminism; title: Other perspectives on adoption.