1st Edition
When Adoptions Go Wrong Psychological and Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption
By Lita Linzer Schwartz
Copyright 2006
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
When adoptions fail to happen, the effects can be devastating on children and the families who chose to adopt them What if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? In the last twenty years, changes in laws, judicial decisions, social welfare practices, and the availability of American children for adoption have led to an increase in... Read more
- Foreword (Hon. Walter M. Schackman)
- Acknowledgments
- SECTION I: FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY ISSUES
- Chapter 1. Overview: Providing a Context
- Historical Background
- Malfunctions in Adoption
- Introducing the Adoptive Parents
- Tying Adoption to Adoption Disruption
- Chapter 2. Adoption Disruptions
- Types and Causes of Disruptions
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Other Causes Contributing to Adoption Disruptions
- Inadequate Social Services
- Focus on Foster Care
- Other Issues and Impediments
- Incompatibility of Child and Adoptive Parents
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Lives Disrupted
- Adoptions Dissolved
- On the Positive Side
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Effects of the Disruption
- Time for Therapy
- Restatement of Causes
- A Variety of Effects
- Summary
- SECTION II: LEGAL ISSUES: PRECEDENTS AND PREVENTION
- Chapter 6. In Whose “Best Interests”?
- “Open Adoption” and Disruption
- Professional Prevention and Intervention
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Where Do We Go From Here?
- Preventive Measures
- Laws Across the Land
- Recognition of Psychological versus Biological Parenting
- Summary
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
Biography
Lita Linzer Schwartz
