The Chinese Adoption Handbook

Author : John H. Maclean
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595750702

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The Chinese Adoption Handbook by John H. Maclean Pdf

Adopting a child can be one of life's most rewarding experiences. Unfortunately, complex policies, legal risks, and fewer available children can make a domestic adoption difficult. International adoption offers a solution to parents yearning for a child of their own. American parents are now adopting over 6,000 children a year from China and Korea. John Maclean's The Chinese Adoption Handbook is a comprehensive guide to adopting a child from China and Korea. From pitfalls to practical advice, the rewards to the risks, The Chinese Adoption Handbook leads parents through the international maze, including: How the international adoption process works. How to start the process. What you need to know before traveling to China or Korea. Making the most out of your trip-the inside scoop on customs, hotels, and shopping. The children's homes, the U.S. Consulate visit, and the questions that need to be asked. Medical issues, special adoption doctors, and travel requirements. Post-adoption procedures and much, much more. Practical, accurate, and written with a father's sense of humor, The Chinese Adoption Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to adoption from China and Korea.

Author : Kathleen Wheeler,Doug Werner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781459601192

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Adopting in Chin by Kathleen Wheeler,Doug Werner Pdf

With more than 4 million Chinese baby girls in orphanages, the number of Americans adopting these orphans is steadily increasing, and this resource for people interested in doing so outlines what to do, where to go, who to see, and how much it costs. Simplifying important information about procedures, forms, and agencies, the guide is also the p...

Author : Myra Alperson
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466856240

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The International Adoption Handbook by Myra Alperson Pdf

For anyone involved in, or thinking about, adopting a child from abroad, The International Adoption Handbook is an essential guide. The process of international adoption can sometimes seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide, which provides the necessary hard facts and information — as well as support through the experiences of the author and others — will help smooth the way. After a general discussion of who may adopt and what restrictions may apply, the book goes into the nitty-gritty of what the process entails: choosing where to adopt and how to go about it; using an agency or facilitator; initiating the home study; assembling a dossier; working with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; knowing the topes of expenses that can be anticipated; and many other issues. In addition, the book provides up-to-date information on resources, including what is available today on the Internet, information that was previously difficult for adoptive parents to find out on their own. Equally informative are the author's interviews of a number of adoptive families whose stories are interspersed throughout the book. By sharing their experiences, they help to make the process work for others.

Author : Rafael A. Javier
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412927505

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Handbook of Adoption by Rafael A. Javier Pdf

'Handbook of Adoption' addresses topics in adoption that reflect the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race adjustment and clinical practice which can affect adoption triad members.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tracks Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781884654824

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Adopting in China by Anonim Pdf

With more than 4 million Chinese baby girls in orphanages, the number of Americans adopting these orphans is steadily increasing, and this resource for people interested in doing so outlines what to do, where to go, who to see, and how much it costs. Simplifying important information about procedures, forms, and agencies, the guide is also the personal story of one middle-aged couple's quest to become parents--as well as why and how they made the decision and what went on before, during, and after their trip to China.

Author : Leslie Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503600114

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Outsourced Children by Leslie Wang Pdf

It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization? Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this "outsourced intimacy" operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind. Outsourced Children reveals the different care standards offered in Chinese state-run orphanages that were aided by Western humanitarian organizations. Wang explains how such transnational partnerships place marginalized children squarely at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas. While Western societies view childhood as an innocent time, unaffected by politics, this book explores how children both symbolize and influence national futures.

Author : Sara Dorow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 096384721X

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When You Were Born in China by Sara Dorow Pdf

Helping readers to understand Chinese culture, this book is ideal for families of children being adopted from China. It also delves into the adoption process itself and is packed with photos that appeal to both adoptive parents and children.

Author : Kelly Mayfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534666443

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Mine in China by Kelly Mayfield Pdf

Considering adopting from China? Mine In China is your guide to everything you need to know to make this dream a reality. Topics include:*Affording adoption*How to choose the right agency for your family*Understanding special needs adoption*How to compile a dossier*Detailed explanations of the steps involved, typical timeframes, and acronyms used*Evaluating the file of a potential child*How to understand your child's name and transition him or her to an American name*Questions to ask when requesting an update on your child*Getting through the early days home*Extensive additional resource recommendationsIn addition, the book includes an extensive travel section to make your trip to China go smoothly.*Travel agent, tour guide, and hotel recommendations*Covering the planes, trains, and automobile possibilities of your journey*Important things to do before you travel*The ultimate packing list*Understanding Chinese culture including what to expect for available food options and how to use an Asian style "squatty potty"

Author : Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226352510

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China's Hidden Children by Kay Ann Johnson Pdf

During the 1990s and early 2000s, China became the world s largest supplier of healthy, predominantly female, children for international adoption--a veritable diaspora of 120,000 girls. We in the west have come to believe that this situation was the result of China s One-Child Policy, combined with a traditional Chinese cultural disdain for females and for adopting outside family bloodlines. While there is one truth in this account it does not nearly tell the whole story. Kay Ann Johnson should know. For the last twenty-five years she has been one of the few scholars who has done research on child abandonment and local adoption in China itself. She is also the mother of an adopted Chinese daughter. Her book paints a startlingly different picture. For Chinese parents, giving up their daughters is fraught with grief and remorse. Were it not for the punishments and threats of birth planning campaigns, they would have kept and raised the girls they gave birth to, regardless of how many daughters they had. Johnson presents parents stories about why and how they relinquished a second or third daughter in an often desperate effort to hide her birth from authorities to avoid punishment (including the threat of mandatory sterilization). As the Chinese government cracked down and increased its surveillance, the methods of relinquishing one child changed: from adopting-out a child to a known daughterless family among friends or extended kin, to secret abandonments at carefully chosen doorsteps of likely potential adopters, then finally to outright abandonment in public places. In the 21st century, the so called abandoned children of China have become stolen children. Declining fertility rates and increased seizures of illegally, but locally adopted children have made the dwindling numbers of relinquished children more vulnerable to increasing interregional child trafficking for official and unofficial adoption. Ironically, childless Chinese couples no longer can readily fin healthy young children locally to adopt. Ultimately, Johnson argues that birth planning policies and restrictive adoption regulations, including the perverse incentives these policies create, help drive current patterns of child trafficking and make its eradication difficult if not impossible."

Author : Kat Lamons,Trish Diggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989373223

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The New Crunch-Time Guide to Parenting Language for Chinese Adoption by Kat Lamons,Trish Diggins Pdf

The absolute, must-have, can't-live-without-it, English to Chinese words and phrases adopting parents need to communicate effectively with your newly adopted child while in China and after you get home! Intentionally small to make travel easier (every ounce counts), it's packed with terms and phrases - and even some bonus words like colors and numbers - to make this special time and transition easier. (Plus, you'll get access to free audio downloads!)

Author : Karin Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1585426768

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The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans Pdf

In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many miles to complete their families. At once a compelling personal narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China, The Lost Daughters of China has also served as an invaluable guide for thousands of readers as they navigated the process of adopting from China. However, much has changed in terms of the Chinese government?s policies on adoption since this book was originally published and in this revised and updated edition Evans addresses these developments. Also new to this edition is a riveting chapter in which she describes her return to China in 2000 to adopt her second daughter who was nearly three at the time. Many of the first girls to be adopted from China are now in the teens (China only opened its doors to adoption in the 1990s), and this edition includes accounts of their experiences growing up in the US and, in some cases, of returning to China in search of their roots. Illuminating the real-life stories behind the statistics, The Lost Daughters of China is an unforgettable account of the red thread that winds form China?s orphanages to loving families around the globe.

Author : Amy Klatzkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0963847228

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A Passage to the Heart by Amy Klatzkin Pdf

Author : Karin Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440637551

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The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans Pdf

In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many miles to complete their families. At once a compelling personal narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China, The Lost Daughters of China has also served as an invaluable guide for thousands of readers as they navigated the process of adopting from China. However, much has changed in terms of the Chinese government?s policies on adoption since this book was originally published and in this revised and updated edition Evans addresses these developments. Also new to this edition is a riveting chapter in which she describes her return to China in 2000 to adopt her second daughter who was nearly three at the time. Many of the first girls to be adopted from China are now in the teens (China only opened its doors to adoption in the 1990s), and this edition includes accounts of their experiences growing up in the US and, in some cases, of returning to China in search of their roots. Illuminating the real-life stories behind the statistics, The Lost Daughters of China is an unforgettable account of the red thread that winds form China?s orphanages to loving families around the globe.

Author : Jean MacLeod
Publisher : Emk Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Adopted children
ISBN : 0972624414

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At Home in this World by Jean MacLeod Pdf

A nine-year-old girl describes what she knows of her adoption from China.

Author : Carlos Pineda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452061061

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Honor Thy Daughters by Carlos Pineda Pdf

The journey to Samantha was the most unique adventure I’ve ever been associated with. The people we met and the places we saw were inimitable. I stood on the steps of the Great Wall of China and was able to see the wall curve and wind through the mountains and valleys. It was humbling! I stood on the banks of the Pearl River and watched as the city of Guangzhou lighted up the sky at night. It was beautiful! I witnessed the street traffic, congested and busy with automobiles, motorcycles, scooters, pushcarts, bicycles hauling ox carts, and pedestrians scurrying past and around each other. Vehicles and pedestrians alike were all jockeying for position, all in the name of commerce—the product of a country with 1.8 billion people. I shall never forget these things! We were in China to get our daughter and take her home. This book chronicles our story through an ordinary and simple man’s view. I wanted to enlighten everyone not so much with China’s history, but with the journey of our adoption process.