Summary
Editor Margaret Haerens has compiled a series of essays that explores topics relating to the adoption of international children. The essays represent varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these topics. This allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate whether international adoptions should be encouraged, what impact celebrity adoptions has on it, the consequences of international adoptions, and what changes should be made to the international adoption process.
Contents
International adoptions should be encouraged / Elizabeth BartholetInternational adoptions should be discouraged / E.J. Graff
International adoptions should be an option for tsunami orphans / Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
International adoptions exploit tsunami orphans and result in child trafficking / Asha Krishnakumar
Celebrity adoptions are helpful to the practice of international adoption / Selaelo Ramokgopa
Celebrity adoptions are harmful to the practice of international adoption / Gabrielle Birkner
Celebrity international adoptions transcend racial barriers and shed light on issue of orphaned children / Cindy Rodriguez
Celebrity international adoptions are not in the best interest of the child / Kate Sheehy
Celebrity international adoptions help children in need / Carol Lloyd
Celebrity international adoptions are a form of colonialism / Adam Elkus
International adoptions break down racial and ethnic stereotypes / Angela Krueger
International adoptions result in discrimination / Mateo Cruz
International adoptions illustrate the fluidity of racial and ethnic boundaries in American society / Hiromi Ishizawa ... [et al.]
International adoptions alienate children from cultural heritage / Kim Young-gyo
International adoptions do not necessarily alienate children from cultural heritage / Martha Nichols
International adoptions neglect U.S. children in need / Jocelyn Noveck
There should be more regulations in international adoption / Natalie Cherot
There should be fewer regulations in international adoption / John Stossel
The international adoption process requires more vigilance against child trafficking / David M. Smolin
The United States should not deal with countries that exploit children and the international adoption process / Kate O'Keefe
International adoptions should not be used as a political issue / Fred Weir
There should be pre- and post-pediatric counseling in the international adoption process / Sandra L. Iverson and Dana E. Johnson.
Additional Information
| Series | Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered) |
| Subjects |
Intercountry adoption
-- United States
-- Juvenile literature.
Interracial adoption -- United States -- Juvenile literature. Intercountry adoption -- Juvenile literature. Interracial adoption -- Juvenile literature. |
| Publisher | Detroit :Greenhaven Press,2011 |
| Contributors |
Haerens, Margaret.
|
| Language |
English |
| Description |
232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780737749700 (hbk.) 0737749709 (hbk.) 9780737749717 (pbk.) 0737749717 (pbk.) |
| Other | Classic View |