Adoption in the Digital Age Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century /

• Main Author: Samuels, Julie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social work.; Social groups.; Family.; Mass media.; Communication.; Social policy.; Social Work.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Media Sociology.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

Adoption in the Digital Age explores the transformation of adoption due to social and digital media technologies. The most prolific of these changes can be seen within contact arrangements, particularly those that are not managed by an intermediary, between adopted minors and their biological kin. W...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Adoption in the Digital Age
• 3. Popular Media Representations of Adoption in the Digital Age
• 4. Adoption: Search and Reunification in the Digital Age
• 5. Further Openness in Adoption?
• 6. Conclusion.