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Adoption Expert Adam Pertman -- Talk and Signed Copies of Author's Books
- Item Number
- 192
- Estimated Value
- 1000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 300 USD
Item Description
Adam Pertman, the country's leading authority on adoption and author of Adoption Nation and Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men, will speak to your group or private gathering in your home and provide signed copies of his two books.
In Adoption Nation, Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families.
For the first edition of this groundbreaking examination of adoption and its impact on us all, Pertman won awards from many organizations, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law, the American Adoption Congress, the Century Foundation, Holt International, and the U.S. Congress. In this updated edition, Pertman reveals how changing attitudes and laws are transforming adoption—and thereby American society—in the twenty-first century.
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men explores the gamut of historical, legal, sociological, psychological, social casework, and personal issues related to adoption by sexual-minority individuals and couples. Leading experts in a variety of fields address—and often shatter—the controversies, myths, and misconceptions hindering efforts by these individuals to adopt and raise children. What makes this book all the more valuable is that it provides insights and specific recommendations for establishing empirically validated best practices for working with an important sector of our society, for treating all prospective and current parents fairly and equally, and, perhaps most importantly, for increasing a still largely untapped resource for providing families for children who need them.
Item Special Note
Time and place to be mutually agreed upon.
Offer expires May 31, 2013.
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