Adoptive Parenthood in Hong Kong

List of contents

1: Introduction; 2: Stresses and Issues in Parenthood; 3: Adoption in the Family and Child Welfare Context; 4: Issues in Adoptive Parenthood and Conceptual Framework; 5: Methodology; 6: Ethnographic Insights and Hypotheses for Testing; 7: Profiles of Adoptive Parents, Adoptive Children and Birth Parents; 8: Demographic Data of Respondent Adoptive Families; 9: Traditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in Descriptive Statistics; 10: Nontraditional Adoption: Stresses and Patterns of Coping in Descriptive Statistics; 11: Hypotheses Testing and Scale Construction; 12: Discussion and Recommendations

About the author

Grace Po-Chee Ko

Summary

This title was first published in 2001. A systematic study of non-relative adoption in Hong Kong. It examines the changing profile of non-relative adoption between 1987 and 1993, from the author's analysis of 486 case files.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Po-Chee Ko, Po Chee Ko, Grace Po-Chee Ko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138717282
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71728-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Hong Kong, Adoption & fostering, Society and culture: general, Adoption and fostering