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  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 2

    by Jackie Reynolds, Michael Murray, Miriam Bernard, Anna Goulding, Andrew Newman, Lorna Warren, Alastair S Macdonald, Elizabeth Williams, Laura Brown, Tom Smith, Arlene J Astell, Janet Lord, Jan Oyebode, Wendy Martin, Christina Victor, Kate White, Randall Smith, Jane Seymour, Ailsa Cameron, Michael Calnan, Liz Lloyd, Miranda Davies, Mary Gilhooly, Mike Lewis, Ann Hockey, Judith Phillips, Ingrid Eyers, Susan Venn, Sara Arber ...
    Series series The New Dynamics of Ageing
    This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on four major themes: ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • You Carried Me

    A Daughter’s Memoir

    by Melissa Ohden ...
    **What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother, who never knew her daughter was alive?Winner, 2018 Christianity Today Book Award, CT Women** Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Illumination Book Awards, Biography & MemoirMelissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wuhu Diary

    On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

    by Emily Prager ...
    In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How It Feels to Be Adopted

    by Jill Krementz ...
    In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Generation Unbound

    Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage

    by Isabel V. Sawhill ...
    Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage.In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change ""drifters"" into ""planners."" ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Life Story Books for Adopted Children

    A Family Friendly Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.   This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Planning Families in Nepal

    Global and Local Projects of Reproduction

    by Jan Brunson ...
    Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning.Promoting a two-child norm, global family planning programs have disseminated the slogan, “A small family is a happy family,” throughout the global South. Jan Brunson examines how two ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Scarlet A

    The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

    by Katie Watson ...
    Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Abortion Rights

    For and Against

    by Kate Greasley, Christopher Kaczor ...
    This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Steps for Little People

    Parenting Your Adopted Child

    by Celia Foster ...
    This book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully over the years. Many we have adapted to suit their needs and many we have made up ourselves. What we have become particularly good at is not giving up!'A mother of two adopted children, Celia Foster wrote Big Steps for Little People as a personal `insider's guide' to parenting adopted children.Drawing on the hard-won wisdom gained ... Read more

    $19.69 USD