Product Description

Adoption Factbook III is an indispensable resource with respect to any aspect of adoption. This publication will be of great use to current and future adoptive parents, individuals that are facing important decisions regarding an unplanned pregnancy, and adoptive adults desiring positive adoption articles celebrating adoption. This book is also the most comprehensive source available for adoption related data, analysis, and recommendations that will be of great benefit to policy makers, scholars, researchers, and practitioners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2159421 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 637 pages

Arthur R. Miller, Professor, Harvard Law School
"The NCFA Adoption Factbook III is an important tool for policy makers, educators, and those who seek to understand the issues of privacy and adoption."

Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., U.S. House of Representatives
"The Factbook is essential reading for those who care and need to know about adoption. This book gives people what they need in a simple and reliable manner."

Judy Woodruff, CNN Correspondent
"If you really care about adoption, the NCFA Adoption Factbook III is an essential book to have at hand."

Customer Reviews

Real Rating Should be 10 Stars to the NEGATIVE!!
>Quoting: "If one contributor's work can be taken as representative of the attitudes of National For Adoption Council thinking, the chapters written by Denis M. Donovan lay bare NCFA's real attitude toward birthmothers. In his chapter entitled "Disclosure of Adoptive Status," Donovan emphasizes that "Adoptive parents are...the adoptive child's only parents. Thus there cannot be 'two sets of parents' nor can there be 'biological' and 'adoptive'.....parents." Therefore, if the child should use the conventional expression 'biological mother/father/parent,' the parent should answer with terminology like this: "...he/she chose not to be a parent, so you mean the 'biological stranger.'" >End Quote
-----------------------------------------------------------------

The above quote speaks the TRUTH of the matter regarding this book of adoption "facts". These "facts" are so VERY far removed from the truth I'm amazed the publishers let it go to press. I can't believe Donovan had the nerve to put such TRASH in print and call it a book. If an adoptive parent parents as suggested in this TRIPE-filled book the number of hurt adoptees seeking admittance to online (and real-life) groups, set up to heal the damage done by adoption and ignorant aparents, will swell as never before. Do not, and I repeat, do NOT buy this book in preparation for raising the adopted child. If you just have to buy it so you can see what all the fuss is about - buy it, read it, dismiss it as bunk then trash the darn thing! It will be completely at home with the rest of contents of your garbage can! It's the TRUTH that needs telling, not this collection of LIES!

More cruelty against real (natural) mothers
This book reveals the dark, evil, cruel nature of infant adoption in the United States. First, the adoption industry preys on vulnerable young moms, telling them, "We know that you LOVE your child. The most LOVING thing you can do for your child is to place him for adoption, so that he can have a better life." Then, after the naive, loving mother falls for these lies and surrenders her beloved child, the baby-buyer tells her child that her natural mother "didn't love her."

obscene
The contents of this book is cruel, totally obscene and fiction. I can not believe that an organization would spread such lies and deception, poor and cruel advice.