International Advances in Adoption Practice brings together the cutting-edge research from the worldwide community of leading adoption researchers. Among the issues covered are international and domestic adoption, openness, adoption from the perspective of the birth family, the child and the adopters, and adoption of children with special needs and those from deprived backgrounds. Featuring authors from five different countries, this book provides a truly international and interdisciplinary view on adoption, and is designed to be relevant and accessible to a wide audience, especially practitioners working in adoption.
