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Eastern European adoption : policies, practice, and strategies for change
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Eastern European adoption : policies, practice, and strategies for change

Author: Josephine A Ruggiero
Publisher: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Josephine A Ruggiero
ISBN: 9780202309767 0202309762
OCLC Number: 128237568
Description: xviii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: An introduction to international adoption from Eastern Europe --
Adoptions from Eastern Europe to the United States --
Understanding what motivates Americans to adopt a child or children internationally --
Similarities and differences in issues relevant to international and domestic adoption --
Studying older-child and sibling group adoptions from Eastern Europe --
Parents speak about the process of international adoption and their satisfaction-dissatisfaction with their decision to adopt internationally --
Embarking on the journey of a lifetime : breathing life into the data through case narratives --
Case narratives of satisfied adopters --
Case narratives of families who typically feel "caught in the middle" --
Case narratives of adopters whose children have many serious problems --
Parents speak about state and federal government involvement in regulating agencies engaged in placing international adoptees with Americans --
Interventions and policy shifts --
Impacts of existing adoption policies and practices : when private troubles become public issues --
Mapping changes needed in adoption policy and practice --
Solutions and strategies that are linked to clients' rights and agencies' responsibilities --
Producing positive changes for the long run --
Bringing about changes that are in the best interest of adoptees and their adoptive families --
Epilogue : out of the past and into the future --
Postscript : a survey approach: how? why? who?
Responsibility: Josephine A. Ruggiero.
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