Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need

by Peter Hayes and Toshie Habu

The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415391814
• ISBN13: 9780415391818
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"