Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need
Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu, "Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)"
Routledge; 1 edition | English | 2006-06-13 | ISBN: 0415391814 | 193 pages | PDF | 1.34 mb
Routledge; 1 edition | English | 2006-06-13 | ISBN: 0415391814 | 193 pages | PDF | 1.34 mb
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical source material gathered since the late 1980s, the authors consider the central policy issue of whether agencies should be given a free hand to create their own policies, or whether they should be more tightly regulated. Finally, the book analyzes how different agency strategies for finding homes for hard to place children are related to different assumptions about the psychology and reasoning of prospective parents.