2 results for month: 04/2005
Intercountry adoption: Who are the good guys?
The January 5, 2005 CNN headline read, “Trafficking a threat to tsunami orphans.” Within days after the tsunami hit, Indonesia had begun putting into place policies which prohibited any child under age 16 from leaving the country. Why? The Indonesian Embassy’s press secretary in Washington explained that “"the government would like to protect the children from potential traffickers.” It had cause for concern – estimates of children trafficked each year range from a half a million to four million.
Is this concern sufficient to interfere with legitimate intercountry adoption? Indeed, is intercountry adoption an act of unparalleled ...
Social Work and the Courts
This book will give social workers a good introduction to the law as it affects the practice of social work and social work in general. The book is well designed for use by non-lawyers because its chapters are organized by subject matter rather than by legal principles. Therefore, for example, the reader can quickly go to those cases dealing with aging or income maintenance.
Other parts of the book are helpful to social workers interested in learning more about the laws and legal decisions that affect their profession. There is a brief section that explains 'how to use this book' that will enable the nonlawyer reader to engage in additional reading. ...