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This book discusses the crisis of caregiving as it affects parents seeking to provide good care for their children and people who care for their aged or disabled relatives. Discussed are alternatives to the present welfare system, a description of the current safety net programs, and an analysis of the privatization of social services.

This book discusses the crisis of caregiving as it affects parents seeking to provide good care for their children and people who care for their aged or disabled relatives. Discussed are alternatives to the present welfare system, a description of the current safety net programs, and an analysis of the privatization of social services.

The interview discusses Chamberlin's role in mental illness patient liberation and processes and history behind her choices. The author presents materials from current and former interviews with Chamberlin. The interview discusses the insurance industry's position and measures, absence of mental health patients opinions, and medication policies and research therein. Chamberlin discusses hospice care, and daily life and thoughts, before elaborating on the mental patients liberation front and call for alterative services. The author asks Chamberlin the difficult questions, including those regarding respect toward the opinions of the mentally ill, thoughts regarding treatment and sociological factors; such as the political correctness and current public treatment as individuals. Adapted from the source document.

A cultural comparison of Western society adoption practices to those Eastern Oceania explores the stigmas attached to inheritance and adoption laws to argue that the lessening stigma of adoption helps people to embrace the "other." A brief history of Western patrilineal society adoption practices traces the stigma is of inheritance rights, the child welfare orientation distinguished from the matrilineal, clan & sibling group priority of Eastern Oceanic adoption practices. The changes in Western attitude towards adoption still suffers the legacy of the stigma of the legitimacy as exemplified in the conflicted over opening adoption records, & is supported by the analysis of surveys on adult adoptees opinions about open adoption which indicate a release of emotional baggage and guilt. The current state of adoption in the US is characterized as making it harder for black families to adopt, leaving black children in foster care, despite the advances by the adoption & safe families act of 1997. Assessment of the current state of international adoption indicates a rise in the last two decades, the standards set by the Hague convention, sexual politics between countries, & open international adoption. The lessening of the stigma of adoption is concluded to help put aside the idealization of the biological nuclear family, biological reproduction, & ethnic purity to pave the way for an ideal society are children could choose whom they want to live with. J. Harwell