Adoption in Japan : Comparing Policies for Children in Need

ISBN-13: 9780415645706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str.

Peter Hayes

Opis

Tackling the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan, this book, aimed at professionals, analyses how different agency strategies for finding homes for hard to place children are related to different assumptions about the psychology and reasoning of prospective parents.

Spis treści

1. An Overview of Adoption in Japan  2. Special Adoption: A Liberal Policy in a Conservative Society  3. Loving Hands  4. The Motherly Network  5. A Christian Adoption Agency  6. The Doctor's Association  7. International Adoption  8. Transethnic Adoption  9. Comparing Institutional Care with Fostering and Adoption  10. Decision-Making in Matching  11. Problems of Power and Prospects for Reform.  Appendix 1: Adoption Numbers.  Appendix 2: Adoption, Surrogacy and Abortion

O autorze

Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu