Catalogue by countries / Adoption and Ethics: The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in Adoption (Vol 1)
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-INTERACIAL ENG-017 |
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| Title | Adoption and Ethics: The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in Adoption (Vol 1) |
| Author | FREUNDLICH Madelyn |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-2000 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Publisher | Child Welfare League of America, Inc., 440 First Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20001-2085, |
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| Page | 153 |
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| ISBN | 0 87868 797 1 |
| Type of material | Book |
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Commentaries Evaluation |
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UNITED STATES |
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Legislation-comment Substitute-family Interacial Ethics Kinship-care Identity-origin Legislation-adoption Child-interest Identity-adoptive |
| Free text | Madelyn Freundlich (formerly served as executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute) is now policy director of Children's Rights Inc., New York. This book is the first in the series produced by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and published by the CWLA on ethical issues associated with adoption. With the shift in the social climate as a result of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the USA there has been a re-apraisal of the role of culture and race in adoption. The author analyses new trends and policies (such as the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act and the Interethnic Placement Act - collectively known as the MEPA) as they affect practice and fuels the debate on issues of race and culture, trans-racial and inter-country adoption and their effects on the development of identity of the children concerned. In the section on Kinship Foster Care and the Role of Race and Color in Permanency Planning for Children in Foster Care, the author points to "positive outcomes for children associated with kinship care (which) suggest that there are important lessons to be learned regarding the extent to which the interests of children of color in foster care can be met by continuing connections with their family and cultural community." Ethical issues associated with the best interests of the child, in reference to inter-country adoption are discussed in The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in International Adoption where the author comments on results of research on the matter |
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| Degree of interest | Valuable |
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Psychology Social work --> |
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