Wrongful Adoption: Law, Policy, and Practice

by Madelyn Freundlich and Lisa Peterson

The past decade has seen an increase in cases where adoptive parents fail to receive accurate or complete information about a child's physical, emotional, or developmental problem or about a child's birthfamily and history. In such cases, adoptive parents, confronted with extremely expensive medical care or mental health care, have sought assistance through the courts. Wrongful Adoption examines the issue in four parts: the history of adoption practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878687378
• ISBN13: 9780878687374
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"