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Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider's tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
List of contents
Part One: Foster Care
1. Why Do I Want This Job?
2. Service Plans
3. Who Are These Parents and Children?
4. Foster Home Highs and Lows
5. The Cycle of Dysfunction
6. Boy Troubles
7. Termination of Parental Rights
8. Making My Escape
Part Two: Agency Adoption
9. The Home Study Process
10. Adoption Is the Good Thing That Happens
11. Adoption Disruptions
12. "Doing Good" Isn't Always Good
13. The Need for Open Adoption
14. Finding Just The Right Home
Part Three: Adoptive Parenthood and Sisterhood
15. Children Are Exactly Who They Are Meant To Be
16. How to Talk About Adoption
17. A Homeland Tour: Honoring Your Child's Heritage
18. A Sister's Journey of the Heart
19. Awkward (and Worse) Encounters for Adoptive Families
20. Jocelyn's Birth Mother
Part Four: Adoption Connections
21. Our Own Adoption Agency
22. Birth Parent Counseling Etiquette
23. Two Open Adoptions
24. Choosing an Adoptive Family
25. Money Matters
26. Scammers
27. Can Foster Care and Adoption Work Together?
Part Five: Changes
28. A Battle for Gay Adoption
29. Baby Brokers
30. The Ethics of International Adoption
31. The Ethics of Foster Care
About the author
By Anne Moody
Summary
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider’s tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
