Saving international adoption : an argument from economics and personal experience /
International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many g...
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: why is international adoption collapsing?
- The obvious benefits of international adoption
- Whose culture is being defended?
- Is it culture or race?
- Walking while black (WWB)
- Trafficking jam
- Is adoption too commercial?
- Objections: won't less regulation make things worse?
- Repugnant ideas that became mainstream
- Adoption: joy and sadness.