The Praeger Handbook of Adoption: O-Z

abuse adolescents adop adopted child adopted children adoption agencies adoption assistance adoptive families adoptive parents adoptive placement adult American baby behavioral biological parents birth family birth mothers birth parents boys chil child welfare agencies Child Welfare League children adopted Children's Bureau closed adoptions consent court custody dren father federal foster care foster care system foster parents Further Reading illegitimacy infants Intercountry Adoption international adoptions issues kinship League of America MARY BETH WHITEHEAD ment non-adopted number of children older children open adoption Operation Babylift Orphan Trains orphanages parens patriae parental rights percent permanency planning placed post-adoption services problems prospective adoptive relationship relinquishment reported reunification Romania siblings single parent adoptions single parents social workers Society special needs adoption surrogacy termination of parental tion transracial adoption U.S. Census Bureau Uniform Adoption Act United WILLIAM STERN York