Cynthia R. Mabry & Lisa Kelly, Adoption Law: Theory, Policy, and Practice (2d ed. Hein 2010).
The second edition of Mabry and Kelly's Adoption Law casebook discusses legal, psychological, and social aspects of adoption.
Chapters cover a wide range of related issues, including:
- history and overview of adoption in the US
- prerequisites to adoption
- identifying adoptees and adoptive parents
- the adoption process
- adoption variations (stepparents, kinship, gay men and lesbians, etc.)
- adoption of Indian children
- transracial adoption
- intercountry adoption
- interstate adoption
- legal and other effects of adoption
- confidentiality and unsealing adoption records
- postadoption contact
- alternatives to adoption
The Library's copy of this book will be found in the Classified Stacks at KF545.M33 2010.
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