- ISBN: 9780887061035 | 0887061036
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/1/1985
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Background | |
| Assumptions | |
| The Framework | |
| The Inquiry | |
| Background of the Study | |
| Foster Parents as Adoptive Parents - A Shift in Philosophy | |
| The Adoption Decision | |
| Conditions for Foster Parent Adoption | |
| Failure of Foster Parent Adoptions | |
| Outcome of Long Term Foster Care | |
| Outcome of Adoptions by Foster Parents | |
| Some Conclusions | |
| The Design of the Research | |
| The Setting | |
| Date Collection Pattern | |
| The Sample | |
| The Sampling Framework | |
| Sample Selection: The Children Adopted or Not Adopted | |
| Sample Selection: The Children Whose Adoptions Failed | |
| The Final Sample | |
| The Workers Interviewed | |
| The Families Interviewed | |
| The Instruments for Data Collection | |
| Instruments for Sample Selection and Clarification | |
| Instruments to Gather the General Ideas of the Worker | |
| Instruments to Gather the Workers' Knowledge of the Families | |
| Instruments to Interview the Family | |
| Hiring and Training of Interviewers | |
| Data Collection | |
| Data Reduction | |
| Coding Reliability | |
| Data Analysis | |
| Summary | |
| Parents and Children | |
| The Families | |
| Family Composition | |
| Age | |
| Race | |
| Socio-economic Status | |
| Motivations to Foster | |
| Expectations | |
| Living Patterns | |
| The Children | |
| Gender | |
| Race | |
| Age at Interview | |
| Coming into Care | |
| Placements | |
| Age at Placement in This Home | |
| Time in This Home | |
| Special Needs at Placement | |
| Special Needs at the Time of Adoption Discussion | |
| The Families Not Interviewed | |
| The Families With Two Sample Children | |
| Summary | |
| Becoming a Family | |
| The Match of the Child and Family | |
| Expectations | |
| The Placement Process | |
| The Child in the Family | |
| Changes in the Children | |
| Contact with the Biological Family | |
| Beginning to Decide About Adoption | |
| The Decision About Adoption | |
| The Child and Family Since the Decision | |
| A Note on Changes in the Family | |
| Summary | |
| The Agency Experience | |
| The Agency Experience in General | |
| History as Foster Parents | |
| Preparation With Workers | |
| The Agency Experience Regarding the Specific Child | |
| The Placement | |
| The Adoption Decision | |
| The Worker-Family Relationship | |
| Information | |
| Involvement in Foster Care Processes | |
| Adoption Subsidy | |
| Service After the Decision | |
| Interviewer's Judgment of Agency Service | |
| Summary | |
| Refining the Distinction Between Adopting and Non-Adopting | |
| Foster Parents | |
| Family Characteristics | |
| Child Characteristics | |
| Parent-Child Interaction | |
| Agency Service Variables | |
| The Combined Factors | |
| Conclusions | |
| Foster Parent Adoptions That Failed | |
| The Sample and Incidence of Failure | |
| The Families Interviewed | |
| The Children's Histories | |
| Becoming a Family | |
| The Adoption Decision | |
| The Children at the Time of the Placement Failure | |
| The Parents at the Time of the Placement Failure | |
| The Disruption of the Adoption | |
| The Children and Their Families Later | |
| Conclusions | |
| The Workers, Their Attitudes, and Their Ideas About Foster | |
| Parent Adoptions | |
| The Workers | |
| Work Functions | |
| Experience With Foster Parent Adoptions | |
| Working Conditions | |
| Future Career Plans | |
| The Workers' Attitudes | |
| Index Construction | |
| The Specific Attitudes | |
| The Interrelationship of the Indices | |
| The Workers' Ideas | |
| The Adoption Decision | |
| Priority in Adoption | |
| Pursuing Adoption for Children | |
| Attachment | |
| Problems in Arranging for Adoptions | |
| Adoption Failure | |
| Summary | |
| Conclusions and Implications | |
| The Findings | |
| Pointers Toward Adoption | |
| The Partnership of Foster Parents and Social Workers | |
| Preparation for Foster Care and Adoption | |
| Biological Parent Involvement | |
| Attachment | |
| Children's Special Needs | |
| Low Income Families | |
| Beyond the Agency | |
| The Role of the Social Workers | |
| Index | |
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