Welcome home! : an international and nontraditional adoption reader / Lita Linzer Schwartz, Florence W. Kaslow, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Lita Linzer.

Kaslow, Florence Whiteman.

Series:

Haworth marriage and the family

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption--United States.

Adoption.

United States.

Intercountry adoption--United States.

Intercountry adoption.

Physical Description:

xix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, [2003]

Summary:

Welcome Home! tells the stories of: - Naomi and Fred, an intermarried couple (she's Jewish, he's not) who adopted a Greek baby in 1962 - "Tina" and "Lee," a lesbian couple, who adopted a baby from China - Marianne, a former professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lund in Sweden, who adopted babies from Iran and Thailand--several years after her divorce - Pamela, a divorced mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Vietnam and China--and Karina, one of Pamela's biological children - and many more!

Contents:

Opening the door

Welcome home : from the perspective of research on international adoption

From couple to family

Coming home from China

The family I wanted

Our daughters from China have two mommies

From one wondrous second to countless memorable moments : adventures in adoption

Welcome home Liv, Kim, and Love

A perfect lottery

Adopting from Eastern Europe 101

Miracle sisters from Romania

Adventures in adoption : from Russia to America

Four roads less traveled but they all lead home

Problems, perils, and pleasures of multicultural and biracial adoptions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.

ISBN:

0789017733

0789017741

OCLC:

52411959