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Ethics in American Adoption by L. Anne Babb, PhD. Babb, former President
of the American Adoption Congress, former Oklahoma State
rep. for the North American Council on Adoptable Children,
and author of Adopting and Advocating
for the Special Needs Child
puts her considerable talent and insight into this must-read
book for anyone considering working in the field of adoption.
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"If
your child's natural mother made one error, then went on to live
a blameless life, that's a disclosable fact. If she drifted on
from bad to worse, might it not be kinder and less likely to start
childish speculation running wild by letting her "death" be implied?"
-- Advice to adoptive parents, 1956, from How to Adopt a Child
by Ernest and Frances Cady
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