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Ethics in American Adoption
by L. Anne Babb
Hardcover (May 1999) Bergin & Garvey; ISBN: 089789538X List: $35.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $35.00
Today in the United States there is a lack of consensus about what constitutes ethical practice in adoption. Although ethics in adoption is a hot topic, adoption specialists and professionals are unsure about how to serve the best interests of children who need to be adopted and how birth parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees ought to be served. This failure to identify and prioritize ethical standards in adoption has resulted in a lack of ethical decision-making and inadequate--and sometimes fraudulent--treatment of those seeking adoption-related services. Based on the first research study to specifically study ethics in adoption practice, this book offers an in-depth exploration of the history of values in adoption, various codes and standards of practice affecting adoption work nationally and internationally and presents a suggested list of ethical standards specific to adoption work.
Nameless Persons:
Legal Discrimination Against Non-Marital Children in the United States
by Martha T. Zingo and Kevin E. Early
Hardcover List: $55.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $55.00 Published by Praeger Pub Text Publication date: September 1994 ISBN: 0275947114
This study examines the legal discrimination suffered in the United States by children born out of wedlock. The authors analyze the Supreme Court's equal protection birth status decisions from 1968 to 1992 and, in a case-by-case analysis, trace the development of the Court's rulings, examine the pattern of equal protection tests utilized, and evaluate the consistency of the Court's position. In addition, the work examines the related discrimination suffered by the families of non-marital children, especially single parents and alternative family units, and concludes that it is impossible to gain full equality for children born out of wedlock unless equality is also gained for their family unit. Toward these ends, the authors suggest a feminist jurisprudence as a methodology for addressing the underlying issue at the crux of birth status distinctions.
Searching for Life:
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of
Argentina
by Rita Arditti
Paperback - 270 pages List: $17.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $17.95 ISBN: 0520215702 Hardcover List: $45.00 -- Amazon.com Price: On Order ISBN: 0520211138 Published by University of California Press Publication date: April 1999
Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who challenged the ruthless dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Acting as both detectives and human rights advocates in an effort to find and recover their grandchildren, the Grandmothers identified fifty-seven of an estimated 500 children who had been kidnapped or born in detention centers. The Grandmothers' work also led to the creation of the National Genetic Data Bank, the only bank of its kind in the world, and to Article 8 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the "right to identity," that is now incorporated in the new adoption legislation in Argentina. Rita Arditti has conducted extensive interviews with twenty Grandmothers and twenty-five others connected with their work; her book is a testament to the courage, persistence, and strength of these "traditional" older women.
Paperback List: $18.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $15.16 -- You Save: $3.79(20%) Published by Newsage Pr Publication date: August 1,1995 Dimensions (in inches): 8.96 x 5.97 x .97 ISBN: 0939165260
Check out the parallels between the attempts to keep women infantilized and forbidden from voting and the attempt to keep adult adoptees infantilized and forbidden from accessing their own personal documents.
The Right to Privacy1 Vintage Edition Paperback, 411 pages Published by Vintage Books Publication date: February 1,1997 Dimensions (in inches): 7.99 x 5.17 x .89 ISBN: 0679744347 List: $14.00 ~ Our Price: $11.20 ~ You Save: $2.80 (20%)
Includes a chapter on a birthmother who seeks to contact her relinquished birthchild.
Reissue Edition Paperback, 408 pages List: $14.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $11.20 -- You Save: $2.80(20%) Published by Anchor Books Publication date: June 1,1994 Dimensions (in inches): 7.93 x 5.18 x .98 ISBN: 038547377X
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