Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children

By Rebecca Compton

Book Overview

Now Available in Paperback, Adoption Beyond Borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including:
- Effects of institutionalization on children's developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socioemotional functioning
- Challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines
- Strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness
- How adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which to flourish
- Features the author's first-hand accounts of her own adoption journey as she visited a Kazakhstani orphanage daily for nearly a year, and illustrates the complexities and implications of the research evidence

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190247797
• ISBN13: 9780190247799
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"