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The morality of adoption : social-psychological, theological, and legal perspectives

Author: Timothy P Jackson
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, ©2005.
Series: Religion, marriage, and family series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"A uniquely interdisciplinary book, The Morality of Adoption features Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant contributors examining shifting societal attitudes toward adoption and wrestling with such concrete issues as the psychology of family ties, the advisability of cross-cultural adoption, the morality of single-parent adoption, and the new territory of embryo adoptions." "While this volume does not resolve every  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Timothy P Jackson
ISBN: 0802829791 9780802829795 0802819796 9780802819796
OCLC Number: 61362205
Description: xxix, 337 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Destiny Marie / Marcie Jackson --
Letters to Derek / Gilbert Meilander --
The moral psychology of adoption and family ties / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Gretchen Miller Wrobel --
Adoption, parentage, and procreative stewardship / Brent Waters --
Adoption and the moral significance of kin altruism / Don S. Browning --
Navigating racial routes / Sandra Patton-Imani --
A conversation we ought to be having over adoption / Jeffrey Stout --
Adoption, personal status, and Jewish law / Michael J. Broyde --
Adoption : a Roman Catholic perspective / Lisa Sowle Cahill --
Adoption : a Protestant agapic perspecctive / Stephen G. Post --
Suffering the suffering children : Christianity and the rights and wrongs of adoption / Timothy P. Jackson --
Law, Christianity, and adoption / Stephen B. Presser --
Adoption law and controversies / Ann M. Stanton --
Legal and ethical challenges of embryonic adoption / John C. Mayone --
Afterword : Ishmael's bane : the sin and crime of illegitimacy reconsidered / John Witte, Jr.
Series Title: Religion, marriage, and family series.
Responsibility: edited by Timothy P. Jackson.

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Explores issues such as the psychology of family ties, the advisability of cross-cultural adoption, the morality of single-parent adoption, and the concept of embryo adoptions. Its conclusions aim to  Read more...

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