| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01656nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780826521729 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
362.734 |
| Item number |
MON-S |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Montegomery, Mark |
| -- |
Powell, Irene |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Saving International Adoption |
| Sub Title |
: an argument from economics and personal experience |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Nashville |
| Name of publisher |
Vanderbilt University Press |
| Year of publication |
2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xviii, 270p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This book argues that opposition to adoption ostensibly based on the well-being of the child is often a smokescreen for protecting national pride. Concerns about the harm done by transracial adoption are largely inconsistent with empirical evidence. As for trafficking, opponents of international adoption want to shut it down because it is too much like a market for children. But this book offers a radical challenge to this view—that is, what if instead of trying to suppress market forces in international adoption, we embraced them so they could be properly regulated? What if the international system functioned more like open adoption in the United States, where birth and adoptive parents can meet and privately negotiate the exchange of parental rights? This arrangement, the authors argue, could eliminate the abuses that currently haunt international adoption. The authors challenge the prevailing wisdom with their economic analyses and provocative analogies from other policy realms. Based on their own family's experience with the adoption process, they also write frankly about how that process feels for parents and children<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Intercountry adoption |
| Form subdivision |
Social Problem |
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Adulthood |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
