The Art of Adoption

By Linda Cannon Burgess

Book Overview

Drawing from her interviews in forty-five homes in which one hundred forty-six children were placed, a social worker brings to light the hidden fears and anxieties of birth and adoptive parents and adopted children and illuminates the problems of children growing up without a known birth heritage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393000362
• ISBN13: 9780393000368
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT book for foster/adopting parents!

This is truly an excellent book. Book covers in detail, ALL involved regarding fostering or adopting children. Covers from the childs initial contact with the agency until adulthood when they start to seek their birth parents. The book also includes not only the parents emotional involvement with the placement process but the grandparents, and foster parents. This is a book that should be a reprint, it is truly a book of value!!!