Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary research. Too often, however, birth parents, adoptive parents, foster
"Divided into three sections, this collection of original essays reviews the practice of adoption, orphanage placement and foster care from the colonial period
Exploring the only option for a growing army of children who cannot be placed for adoption or fostering, this text demonstrates from a large-scale survey of orp
According to A.B.C. News, approximately 800,000 children every year come in contact with the foster care system. While the system is set up to take in children
Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decisi