1st Edition
Parents Children and Adoption A Handbook for Adoption Workers
Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Natural Parents 1. Facts and Theories about Unmarried Mothers 2. Casework with the Unmarried Mother and her Parents 3. The Decision about the Baby 4. The Practical Use of Casework Resources 5. The Unmarried Father Part 2: Heredity and Environment 6. Heredity 7. What will the Child be Like? 8. Environment 9. Adoptability Part 3: The Creation of New Families 10. The Purpose of Home-Finding 11. The Practice of Home-Finding 12. Planning for Placement 13. Giving Background Information 14. The Actual Placement Part 4: Statutory and Legal Requirements 15. Supervision of the Adoptive Family 16. The Work of the Guardian ad litem
Biography
Jane Rowe
Review of the first publication:
‘[The book] is a useful and successfully organized synthesis of a good deal of information and “thinking” available in scattered articles and books concerned with specialized aspects of adoption. The writing is clear, the orientation reflects a relaxed, easygoing psychoanalytic point of view, and the author shows a sense of compassion for and understanding of the needs of the principal parties in adoption.
— Alfred Kadushin, Social Work, Volume 12, Issue 3
