Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of ParentingIn her poignant and controversial book, Bartholet examines policies that leave children without homes and would-be parents without children. She questions the wisdom of driving women to spend years in infertility treatment while pushing them away from adoption. She talks about transracial and transnational families, single and older-parent families. She forces us to think about our goals for the family of the future. Uniquely qualified to write this book, Bartholet is a recognized expert on civil rights and family law who has raised one child born to her, endured her own struggle with infertility, and recently adopted as a single parent two children born in Peru. |
Contents
Becoming an Adoptive Parent | 1 |
The Biologic Bias | 24 |
Tales of Loss and Visions of Connection | 39 |
Copyright | |
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