Adoption
By: Noël Merino, book editor.
Contributors: Merino, Noël.
Series: Introducing issues with opposing viewpoints
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780737741650
Subjects: Adoption -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: How should we view adoption?; title: Adoption is a social good / Anna Magnusson; title: Adoption is a social ill / Jess DelBalzo and Bryony Lake; title: Adoption can help end abortion / Nathan Tabor; title: Adoption cannot end abortion / David Nova; title: Adoption can help other countries / Talia Carner; title: Adoption cannot help other countries / Stan Chu Ilo; title: What types of adoption should be encouraged?; title: There are good reasons to discourage adoption by homosexual couples / Thomas D. Williams; title: Adoption by homosexual couples should not be discouraged / Jo McGowan; title: Transracial adoption of African American children is needed / Dawn Davenport; title: Transracial adoption of African American children is not needed / Sydney Duncan; title: International adoption should be encouraged / Cynthia Tucker; title: International adoption should not be encouraged / Mirah Riben; title: What policies should govern adoption?; title: Adoption records should always be available to adult adoptees / Lorraine Dusky; title: Adoption records should not always be available to adult adoptees / Thomas Atwood; title: Open adoption is the best policy / Bill Betzen; title: Open adoption is not always the best policy / Lisa Hunt Warren; title: More foster children should be placed in adoptive homes / Jennifer Roback Morse; title: Foster children should not always be placed in adoptive homes; title: New York Amsterdam news; title: Facts about adoption; title: Organizations to contact; title: For further reading; title: Index; title: Picture credits.