The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families Through the Years

By Elinor B. Rosenberg

Adoption has been heavily criticized recently as an outdated social institution. This book argues that it is still the best solution to a significant social problem, but that its limits and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029270553
• ISBN13: 9780029270554
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Understanding adoption

This is a well written and easy to understand book on the issues involved in adoption. Anyone who has adopted, is adopted, or plans to adopt a child will benefit from the insights in this text.

plans other than adoption, need to be made for handicapped

Rosenberg is a social worker and adopter. Her field is adoption and she adopted two "blue ribbon" babies at least 30 years ago. Her book provides special insight into the true nature of adoption and who benefits from it. About half way through the book, after she has discussed her need to adopt and her experiences as an adoption professional she casually addresses what happens to "handicapped," bi-racial and older children who "need" families. She says "other plans need to be made" for these children. She means plans other than adoption. It doesn't get any better than this if you want to see the naked soul of evil. This book is a well written discription of Rosenberg's personal and professional experiences with adoption.

Well balanced professionally written book on adoption issues

This well-balanced book will appeal to a wide range of readers. It provides a well integrated presentation of significant issues of adoption. It discusses developmental tasks of birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees with commentary on their overlapping issues and intrrelationships. A section on clinical interventions is technical in approach and incorporates developmental stages. The book closes with discussion of legal and social implications. I have spent days searching libraries and data bases for solid information on adoption and life stages. This book is a direct hit for all members of the adoption triad as well as those in the helping professions