Description
This series on adoption and ethics was developed by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and designed to provide an overview of the current knowledge base on key adoption policy and practice issues. The growing use of assisted reproduction, including sperm donation, gamete donation, and surrogate motherhood, has raised a number of ethical issues in common with adoption. These issues include the parties' roles, such as which parties are considered the legal parents; anonymity, such as the balance between the right to privacy of donors and the right of persons to medical or other background information; and concerns related to the growing role of money and power of market forces in each area. Adoption and Assisted Reproduction reviews not only the available literature, but the wide range and outcomes of current case law and statutes. This book is an invaluable tool for all adoption professionals and serves as a first step toward a resolution of issues that professionals in adoption and assisted reproduction currently confront in both policy and practice.
