Ebook: International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice

This is a unique compilation of cross-cultural and international attitudes towards adoption research and outcomes.

• Whilst informal adoption of children has probably always existed across all human societies, this work is timely in that interest in the role of legal adoption as both a child welfare solution and as a means of alternative family formation for adults wanting to become parents has never been higher.
• This book is an edited collection of 13 papers based on invited keynote presentations or paper symposia presentations given at the Second International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR2)   2006. 
• It gives a unique Cross-cultural look at adoption from worldwide, multidisciplinary community of distinguished and emerging adoption researchers.
• International appeal, with different countries laws, attitudes and outcomes fully explored

Content:
Chapter 1 Nature, Nurture and Narratives (pages 1–16): David Howe
Chapter 2 How Tight Was the Seal? A Reappraisal of Adoption Records in the United States, England and New Zealand, 1851–1955 (pages 17–39): E. Wayne Carp
Chapter 3 From Bucharest to Beijing: Changes in Countries Sending Children for International Adoption 1990 to 2006 (pages 41–69): Peter Selman
Chapter 4 The Ecology of Adoption (pages 71–94): Jesus Palacios
Chapter 5 Children from Care can be Adopted (pages 95–118): Ruth G. McRoy, Courtney J. Lynch, Amy Chanmugam, Elissa Madden and Susan Ayers?Lopez
Chapter 6 Understanding Links Between Birth Parents and the Child They Have Placed for Adoption: Clues for Assisting Adopting Families and for Reducing Genetic Risk? (pages 119–146): David Reiss, Leslie D. Leve and Amy L. Whitesel
Chapter 7 Effects of Profound Early Institutional Deprivation: An Overview of Findings from a UK Longitudinal Study of Romanian Adoptees (pages 147–167): Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Mitul Mehta, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga?Barke
Chapter 8 International Adoption Comes of Age: Development of International Adoptees from a Longitudinal and Meta?Analytical Perspective (pages 169–192): Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Chapter 9 Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome: On the Use of Narrative Assessments to Track the Adaptation of Previously Maltreated Children in Their New Families (pages 193–215): Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk, Howard Steele, Kay Asquith and Saul Hillman
Chapter 10 Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They Curious About? (pages 217–244): Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Kristin Dillon
Chapter 11 Emerging Voices – Reflections on Adoption from the Birth Mother's Perspective (pages 245–268): Ruth Kelly
Chapter 12 The Corresponding Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Birth Relatives in Open Adoptions (pages 269–293): Elsbeth Neil
Chapter 13 Emotional Distance Regulation over the Life Course in Adoptive Kinship Networks (pages 295–316): Harold D. Grotevant
Chapter 14 Connecting Research to Practice (pages 317–326): Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil