Children for Families or Families for Children

• 1: Adoption as a Support System for Orphaned, Abandoned, or Voluntary Placed Children,- 2: History: The Changing Face of Adoption,- 3: Sources of Adoption Data,- 4: Adoption Behavior of U.S. Women,- 5: Demographic and Social Issues of Same Sex Adoptions,- 6: Intercountry Adoption to the United States,- 7: Intercountry Adoption: A Quantitative Analysis,- 8: Global Intercountry Adoption,- 9: Conclusions.

The book is a valuable attempt to offer a documented response to a relatively long list of questions about adoption patterns, which usually remian unanswered. European Journal of Population 28:2 (2012)