The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption - Hardcover

Moody, Anne

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9781538108024: The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 153810802X ISBN 13: 9781538108024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in the foster care and adoption systems. Special attention is given to the practice of “baby brokering” and the accompanying exorbitant finder’s fees and financial incentives encouraging birth mothers to relinquish (or pretend that they are planning to relinquish) their babies that permeate much of U.S. infant adoption today.

The Children Money Can Buy illuminates the worlds of foster care and adoption through the personal stories Moody witnessed and experienced in her many years working in the foster care and adoption systems. These compelling stories about real people and situations illustrate larger life lessons about the way our society values―and fails to value―parents and children. They explore the root of ethical problems which are not only financially driven but reflect society’s basic belief that some children are more valuable than others. Finally, Moody makes a plea for change and gives suggestions about how the foster care and adoption systems could work together for the benefit of children and families.

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About the Author

Anne Moody has enjoyed a long career in child welfare work and adoption counseling. Since the early 1980s, she has worked to improve upon the infant adoption process for both birth and adoptive parents. Anne is the Director of Adoption Connections in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is also an adoptive parent.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
153810802X
ISBN 13 
9781538108024
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
266
Rating
  • 3.64 out of 5 stars
    121 ratings by Goodreads

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