Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

The baby market, the case for adoption reform, Anne Moody

eng

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non fiction

The baby market

1343197890

Anne Moody

the case for adoption reform

"Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the might that makes right and the law is very hard to find. The book follows the true stories of women who choose adoption for their babies, some of them making this choice multiple times. There are also stories from adoptive parents who relate their experiences with scams, disappointments, emotional and financial exploitation, and the dubious "assistance" of baby brokers. The process of adopting a baby involves struggle, uncertainty, and even heartache but, for many people, somehow manages to end happily when birth and adoptive parents create connections that respectfully and even joyfully meet their need for one another. The Baby Market provides welcome encouragement and much needed information about how to avoid the numerous pitfalls inherent in adoption and offers suggestions for the reform of a corrupted adoption system." -- from Amazon

Can this be real? -- The vagaries of the marketplace -- Owen and Kira: adoptive family's story -- Why is adoption so hard? -- Lindy: a birth mother's story -- Where does all the money go? -- Yes, it's legal -- Middlemen -- Julia: a single adoptive mother's story -- Birth mothers in the mediai -- Did birth mothers change? -- What will we tell the children? -- What about the siblings? -- Matt and Hannah: a foster-to-adopt story -- What about all the kids i foster care? -- Working with the child welfare system -- Not to scar you, but..." -- Adoptions specialists -- Adoption reform -- Closing the gray market

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