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Based on a qualitative study of 30 adoptive families in West Germany, the book is organized sequentially from the decision to adopt and work with the placing agency through the lifelong processes of becoming a family... Hoffman-Riem's study has relevance for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in all countries where the ratio of childless couples to available, healthy, white infants is high, and where adoption agencies are the legal intermediaries between supply and demand. -B. A. Pine, Choice This insightful book will be of interest to those who work in the area of adoption... An important work (as Hoffman-Riem argues it should be) for sociologists who are interested in understanding families. As she convincingly argues, an examination of adoptive parenthood allows the researcher to break through the 'taken for granted' barrier of 'normal' parenthood, in order to gain insight into the meaning of parenthood through the 'deviant' case. -Kerry Daly, Contemporary Sociology

Based on a qualitative study of 30 adoptive families in West Germany, the book is organized sequentially from the decision to adopt and work with the placing agency through the lifelong processes of becoming a family... Hoffman-Riem's study has relevance for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in all countries where the ratio of childless couples to available, healthy, white infants is high, and where adoption agencies are the legal intermediaries between supply and demand. --B. A. Pine, Choice

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Christa Hoffmann-Riem (1937-1990) was professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Anselm Strauss (1916-1996) was an American medical sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago, USA. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980.

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