Adoption Nation: How Adoption Is Transforming America

Adoption is rapidly metamorphosing into a radically new process that is changing America. It is accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural & multiethnic society, even as it helps redefine our understanding of ''family,'' with the exponential growth of alternative lifestyles, from single to trans-racial to gay. Provides valuable insights into the pleasures & perils of adoption. Lays out the ways in which policymakers should revise our laws to improve the process of adoption, stop treating members of the ''adoption triad'' as second-class citizens, & remove the obstacles that keep the children who most need permanent homes from getting them. Filled with dramatic real-life stories.