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The Baby Market : The Case for Adoption Reform /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moody, Anne
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
Subjects:	Adoption > Economic aspects > United States. Adoption > Moral and ethical aspects > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Author's Note on Terms
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Can This Be Real?
Chapter One. The Vagaries of the Marketplace
Chapter Two. Owen and Kira: An Adoptive Family's Story
Chapter Three. Why Is Adoption So Hard?
Chapter Four. Lindy: A Birth Mother's Story
Chapter Five. Where Does All the Money Go?
Chapter Six. Yes, It's Legal
Chapter Seven. Middlemen
Chapter Eight. Julia: A Single Adoptive Mother's Story
Chapter Nine. Birth Mothers in the Media
Chapter Ten. Did Birth Mothers Change?
Chapter Eleven. What Will We Tell the Children?
Chapter Twelve. What about the Siblings?
Chapter Thirteen. John and Hannah: A Foster-to-Adopt Story
Chapter Fourteen. What about All the Kidsin Foster Care?
Chapter Fifteen. Working with the Child Welfare System
Chapter Sixteen. Not to Scare You, But . . .
Chapter Seventeen. Adoption Specialists
Chapter Eighteen. Adoption Reform
Chapter Nineteen. Closing the Gray Market
Epilogue
Index
About the Author