Morality Of Adoption Social-psychological, Theological, And Legal Perspectives

Adoption is now part of our cultural landscape more than ever, with over five million adoptees currently living in the United States. Along with unprecedented growth in the number of adoptions has come an increasing array of adoption types. How do we determine which forms of adoption are and ought to be morally and legally permissible?A uniquely interdisciplinary book, "The Morality of Adoption" features Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant contributors examining shifting societal attitudes toward adoption and wrestling with such concrete issues as the psychology of family ties, the advisability of cross-cultural adoption, the morality of single-parent adoption, and the new territory of embryo adoptions.Contributors to this volume cover important topics in adoption, including John C. Mayoue on embryonic adoption, Sandra Patton-Imani on adoption and race, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen and Gretchen Miller Wrobel on the moral psychology of adoption, and Stephen B. Presser on adoption and the law. Other respected contributors include Don S. Browning, Michael J. Broyde, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Timothy P. Jackson, Stephen G. Post, Ann M. Stanton, Jeffrey Stout, Brent Waters, and John Witte Jr."While this volume does not resolve every disagreement or uncertainty, it will surely help spur citizens and scholars toward informed moral action with respect to adoption.Jackson, Timothy P. is the author of 'Morality Of Adoption Social-psychological, Theological, And Legal Perspectives', published 2005 under ISBN 9780802829795 and ISBN 0802829791.