Selling transracial adoption : families, markets, and the color line /

While focused on serving children and families, the adoption industry must also generate sufficient revenue to cover an agency's operating costs. With its fee-for-service model, Elizabeth Raleigh asks, How does private adoption operate as a marketplace? Her eye-opening book, Selling Transracial...

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Main Author: Raleigh, Elizabeth Yoon Hwa, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
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