International Adoptions / Edition 1

by Margaret Haerens

Overview

Editor Margaret Haerens has compiled a series of essays that explores topics relating to the adoption of international children. The essays represent varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these topics. This allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate whether international adoptions should be encouraged, what impact celebrity adoptions has on it, the consequences of international adoptions, and what changes should be made to the international adoption process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780737749717
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	09/25/2010
Series:	Opposing Viewpoints Series
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

Gr 9 Up—This volume contains an impressive compilation of statistics and opinions by reputable journalists, social workers, as well as adult adoptees. It offers detailed discussions about whether international adoptions should be encouraged, if celebrity adoptions hurt or help, the consequences for the adoptees, and what changes should be made in the process. The preface and bibliography for each chapter are invaluable, as are the guiding questions at the beginning of each essay. What makes this book so valuable is that it presents an array of forceful opinions. Generally, the writing is articulate and arguments are clear and understandable. The statistical charts and graphs are very readable. Other essays discuss fraud and corruption, and many lament that the fees to adopt foreign children rarely help the sending countries develop the economic strength needed to retain them. Another question addressed is how to balance assimilation in the adoptive culture while maintaining birth culture identity. The prospective audience for this title could go beyond student researchers and debaters to include adoptive parents, social workers, psychologists, and educators.—Deborah Vose, East Middle School and South Middle School, Braintree, MA

School Library Journal

Review: International Adoptions "As always in the Opposing Viewpoints series, there are voices from many sides of the debate."—Booklist, April 2002

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