Adoptive Kinship is a systematic analysis of the continuing controversy concerning the civil rights of adopted persons. Provides in-depth exploration of a variety of issues in adoption law and social policy, such as step-parent adoption, incest rules and child welfare activities. While identifying real troubles in adoption, it proposes humane, innovative answers.

Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform

Politics & Social Sciences

Kirk, H. David

Social Sciences

Butterworth Pub Ltd

Shared Fate has become a classic. Continuing to challenge a pervasive mystique about adoption, the important second edition belongs in every library and with every adoptive family. Based on research with more than 2,000 families, this pioneering work on modern adoption emphasizes open communication as the key to successful resolution of the adoptive family's unique role and tasks. Its findings have stood the test of time. Although new forms of adoption have emerged and become numerically dominant, the book's findings remain pertinent.

Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Adoption

Ben-Simon Pubns

Adoptive Kinship is a systematic analysis of the continuing controversy concerning the civil rights of adopted persons. Provides in-depth exploration of a variety of issues in adoption law and social policy, such as step-parent adoption, incest rules and child welfare activities. While identifying real troubles in adoption, it proposes humane, innovative answers.

Published in honor of David Kirk's 70th birthday, this collection of many of his path-breaking essays serves as a record of a long journey of courageous exploration. Few social scientists have so persistently investigated a single facet of human life. Even fewer have presented complex ideas and important findings in so clear, engaging and readily understandable a language. Topics include: adoption of minority children, a preference for girls, adoption and child development, adopted children and stress, and the legal application of the "best interest of the child." Kirk's original research instruments for the Shared Fate studies are included for the use of students and researchers.

Exploring Adoptive Family Life: The Collected Adoption Papers of H. David Kirk

Adoptive father H. David Kirk's sociological "memoir" about adoption from the perspective of the Shared Fate Theory.

Looking Back, Looking Forward: An Adoptive Father's Sociological Testament

Perspectives Pr

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Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform

Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships

Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform

Exploring Adoptive Family Life: The Collected Adoption Papers of H. David Kirk

Looking Back, Looking Forward: An Adoptive Father's Sociological Testament