▪ Abstract Despite the fact that adoption is a common practice in the United States and in
much of the world today, sociologists have devoted remarkably little attention to it. This …

A growing number of adoptive families have contact with their children's birth relatives. The
Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project is examining longitudinally the consequences …

New edition of the classic The Role of the Father in Child Development The Role of the
Father in Child Development, Fourth Edition brings together contributions from an …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Background: Adopted children have been said to be difficult children, scarred by their past
experiences in maltreating families or neglecting orphanages, or by genetic or pre‐and …

Because adopted children are overrepresented in mental health settings, their parents often
consult psychologists to help them understand and manage some of the unique …

The current study examined the relative contribution of family structural openness versus
communication openness in the adjustment of adopted children. Seventy-three adopted …

The focus of this paper is adoptive identity, the sense of who one is as an adopted person.
The paper first considers how identity has been shaped by recent social changes, and then …

This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and
the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating …

A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children
outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first …