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The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound implications for children and families. Perhaps the most remarkable and controversial transformation during this time has been the growing willingness of adoption professionals to place children with sexual-minority individuals and couples. Yet, despite considerable research showing that lesbians and gay men can make good parents, they continue to experience difficulties and barriers in many parts of the country in their efforts to adopt and raise children. Indeed, while progress in this area has been significant, it has been impeded by the homophobia and heterosexist attitudes of adoption professionals and the judiciary; by numerous stereotypes and misconceptions about parenting by lesbians and gay men, and by a lack of adequate guidelines and training for establishing best practice standards in working with this rapidly growing group of adoptive parents. This work explores the gamut of historical, legal, sociological, psychological, social casework, and personal issues related to adoption by sexual-minority individuals and couples. Leading experts in a variety of fields address, and often shatter, the controversies, myths, and misconceptions hindering efforts by these individuals to adopt and raise children. It provides insights and specific recommendations for establishing empirically validated best practices for working with an important sector of our society, for treating all prospective and current parents fairly and equally, and, perhaps most importantly, for increasing a still largely untapped resource for providing families for children who need them.

· American Adoptions

Adoptions, Inc. American. “American Adoptions — America’s Adoption Agency.” How to Adopt – The Domestic Adoption Process, www.americanadoptions.com/adopt/the_domestic_adoption_process_step_by_step. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017.

· Children in the Muslim Middle East

Fernea, Elizabeth W. Children in the Muslim Middle East. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Print.

Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars. Many of the works have been translated from Arabic, Persian, and French. The forty-one pieces are organized into sections on the history of childhood, growing up, health, work, education, politics and war, and play and the arts. They are presented in many forms: essays in history and social science, poems, proverbs, lullabies, games, and short stories. Countries represented are Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel/West Bank, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen, and Afghanistan. This book complements Elizabeth Fernea’s earlier works, Women and the Family in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (coedited with Basima Bezirgan). Like them, it will be important reading for everyone interested in the Middle East and in women’s and children’s issues.  Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Children Middle East Social conditions, Child rearing Religious aspects Islam, Parenting Religious aspects Islam, Islamic education Middle East Islamic family law

Arshad, Raffia. Islamic Family Law. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2010. Print.

· Islamic law relating to adoption and care giving responsibility

Podet, Allen H. Islamic Law Relating to Adoption and Care Giving Responsibility. Buffalo, N.Y: Center for Development of Human Services, Buffalo State College, 1999. Print.

· Welcome home! : an international and nontraditional adoption reader

Schwartz, Lita L, and Florence W. Kaslow. Welcome Home!: An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader. New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2003. Print.

Summary: A practical resource for anyone thinking of establishing a family or adding to their existing one. Provides insight into the adoption process, open adoption, biracial adoption, adopting a special needs child, cultural attitudes, and how to handle adopted children’s questions in later years.Library notes: Opening the door — Welcome home : from the Perspective of research on international adoption — From couple to family — Coming home from China — The family I wanted — Our daughters from China have two mommies — From one wondrous second to countless memorable moments : adventures in adoption — Welcome home Liv, Kim, and Love — A perfect lottery — Adopting from Eastern Europe 101 — Miracle sisters from Romania — Adventures in adoption : from Russia to America — Four roads less traveled but they all lead home — Problems, perils, and pleasures of mulitcultural and biracial adoptions.

· التبني في الإسلام : وأثره علي العلاقات الخاصة الدولية /

al-Tabannī fī al-Islām : wa-atharahu ʻalá al-ʻalāqāt al-khāṣṣah al-dawlīyah

Shāmī, Yaḥyá A. Z. Al-tabannī Fī Al-Islām: Wa-atharahu ʻalá Al-ʻalāqāt Al-Khāṣṣah Al-Dawlīyah. al-Azārīṭah, al-Askandarīyah: Dār al-Jāmaʻah al-Jadīdah, 2009. Print.

· “مقاصد الشارع في تحريم التبني ورعاية اللقيط – الملتقي الفقهي.” مقاصد الشارع في تحريم التبني ورعاية اللقيط – الملتقي الفقهي, fiqh.islammessage.com/NewsDetails.aspx?id=5069. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017.

“حكم التبني في الإسلام – الموقع الرسمي للإمام ابن باز.” حكم التبني في الإسلام – الموقع الرسمي للإمام ابن باز, www.binbaz.org.sa/noor/8921. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017 .

· “- -.” Islamweb, fatwa.islamweb.net/fatwa/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=139996. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017.

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