The Baby Market : The Case for Adoption Reform / Anne Moody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody, Anne.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption--Economic aspects--United States.

Adoption.

Adoption--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Author's Note on Terms

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Can This Be Real?

Chapter One. The Vagaries of the Marketplace

Chapter Two. Owen and Kira: An Adoptive Family's Story

Chapter Three. Why Is Adoption So Hard?

Chapter Four. Lindy: A Birth Mother's Story

Chapter Five. Where Does All the Money Go?

Chapter Six. Yes, It's Legal

Chapter Seven. Middlemen

Chapter Eight. Julia: A Single Adoptive Mother's Story

Chapter Nine. Birth Mothers in the Media

Chapter Ten. Did Birth Mothers Change?

Chapter Eleven. What Will We Tell the Children?

Chapter Twelve. What about the Siblings?

Chapter Thirteen. John and Hannah: A Foster-to-Adopt Story

Chapter Fourteen. What about All the Kidsin Foster Care?

Chapter Fifteen. Working with the Child Welfare System

Chapter Sixteen. Not to Scare You, But . . .

Chapter Seventeen. Adoption Specialists

Chapter Eighteen. Adoption Reform

Chapter Nineteen. Closing the Gray Market

Epilogue

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Moody, Anne The Baby Market

ISBN:

1538174723

9781538174722

Publisher Number:

40031742957

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.