Adoption and Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses

First Published in 2017. In this book the authors move easily and often between the worlds of policy, practice, and research in child and family welfare. Their own research delineates― better than any other to date― the particular factors associated with success>ful and unsuccessful older, special-needs adoptions.

Richard P. Barth, a fost-adopt father, is Associate Professor, Associate Director of the Family Welfare Research Group, and Chairman of the School Social Work Program, in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Marianne Berry is a doctoral candidate in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.