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The Encyclopedia of Adoption
Adoption is a constantly evolving institution that changes to fit the perceived needs of children who need families, whether they are healthy newborns, children in foster care, children from other countries, or children of all ages with special needs. In addition to the “triad” members of adopted children, adoptive parents, and birthparents, there are many others who are actively involved in adoptions. State and federal legislators enact new laws or rewrite old laws to fulfill new needs or to manage newly recognized problems.
Sometimes new laws are made in order to correct unanticipated problems that old laws created, as with the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). This federal law was written because the earlier federal law, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, had the unanticipated consequence of keeping abused and neglected children in foster care indefinitely rather than returning them to their parents or placing them for adoption with relatives or nonrelatives. ASFA restored the needs of children as the paramount concern, as we discuss in the entry on ASFA.
Third Edition
0-8160-6329-X
NONE
Computer File
Inggris
Facts on File Inc.
2007
United States of America
433 pages
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