Adoption & Fostering

'I’m glad I could do her this one last favour. If it had been the other way round, I know Gina would have done the same for me.’Jane and Gina were ...

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across th...

In 1964, in a bare room in Waterloo, a young actress gave her baby for adoption.They were to be parted for more than twenty years.The actress was P...

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson With his young mother in and out o...

For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. Bu...

Adoption Matters: Teacher Educators Share Their Stories and Strategies for Adoption-Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy explores the experiences of e...

Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt's journey to have a child at "advanced maternal age," first with the help of a Really Expensive fertil...

In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to f...

'Dazzling' Fernanda Melchor'A brilliant debut' Vogue'Bright and brimming with sisterhood. Overwhelmingly beautiful' El CulturalA mother and her chi...

Adoption is one of the great, untold stories of our recent past. It is a truly epic tale of loss, guilt, identity, family feuds, reunion and redemp...

'I'll always remember that Christmas. It was the day the angel came...'It is Christmas Eve and Lisa faces another Christmas alone. After running aw...

From surrogacy and adoption, to transgender pregnancy and finding child care, parenting as an LGBTQ person is complex. This book is an authoritativ...

Social workers are constantly making decisions under pressure. How do policy, law, research and theory influence what they do? This important book ...

The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the true story of Donna, who came into foster care aged ten, having been ab...

Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show...

Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show...

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the la...

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the la...

The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thousands of chi...

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging i...

While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of research reveal...

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging i...

What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans' answer to this question over the past century, "Kinship by Design" provides...