Adoption and Fostering

Illustrating political and professional issues through stories and contributions from specialist practitioners, this book offers a fully rounded picture of adoption and explores some of the myths surrounding it...

Based on a wide range of literature and in-depth interviews with forty-six foster carers, this book analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life...

This important book looks at how children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. Owusu-Bempah introduces his notion of socio-genealogical connectedness to help explain why children in kinship care fare better than children in non-relative foster care...

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...