End of International Adoption?
An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies
By Estye Fenton | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
About the book
Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade during this shift. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace. Many parents, activists, and scholars have questioned whether the inequality inherent in international adoption renders the entire system suspect. In the face of such concerns, international adoption has not only become more difficult, but also more politically and ethically fraught. The mothers interviewed for this book found themselves navigating contemporary American family life in an unexpected way, caught between the double-bind of work-family life and a new paradigm of thinking about the method—international adoption—that they used to create those families.
Editions of End of International Adoption?
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780813599694
- EBook
- ISBN 9780813599700
- PDF
- ISBN 9780813599724
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Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade during this shift. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace. Many parents, activists, and scholars have questioned whether the inequality inherent in international adoption renders the entire system suspect. In the face of such concerns, international adoption has not only become more difficult, but also more politically and ethically fraught. The mothers interviewed for this book found themselves navigating contemporary American family life in an unexpected way, caught between the double-bind of work-family life and a new paradigm of thinking about the method—international adoption—that they used to create those families.
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What is End of International Adoption? about?
Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade during this shift. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace. Many parents, activists, and scholars have questioned whether the inequality inherent in international adoption renders the entire system suspect. In the face of such concerns, international adoption has not only become more difficult, but also more politically and ethically fraught. The mothers interviewed for this book found themselves navigating contemporary American family life in an unexpected way, caught between the double-bind of work-family life and a new paradigm of thinking about the method—international adoption—that they used to create those families.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in End of International Adoption??
Society and Social Sciences > Sociology and anthropology > Sociology > Sociology: family, kinship and relationships
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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780813599694
Is End of International Adoption? part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Families in Focus
Who is/are the Author/s of the book End of International Adoption??
Estye Fenton
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End of International Adoption? is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780813599694) and ebook(ISBN 9780813599700) and pdf(ISBN 9780813599724)
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