Author: Anne Moody
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538174723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today

Author: Atinuke
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221678
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Join Baby and his doting mama at a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace for a bright, bouncy read-aloud offering a gentle introduction to numbers. Market is very crowded. Mama is very busy. Baby is very curious. When Baby and Mama go to the market, Baby is so adorable that the banana seller gives him six bananas. Baby eats one and puts five in the basket, but Mama doesn’t notice. As Mama and Baby wend their way through the stalls, cheeky Baby collects five oranges, four biscuits, three ears of sweet corn, two pieces of coconut . . . until Mama notices that her basket is getting very heavy! Poor Baby, she thinks, he must be very hungry by now! Rhythmic language, visual humor, and a bounty of delectable food make this a tale that is sure to whet little appetites for story time.

Author: Andrew M Molloy
Publisher: Andrew M Molloy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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When Tony Starling puts his three-week-old daughter into an orphanage, little did he realise how wrong he could have been to give Lucy away. Many years later, as Lucy grows up. She has become a cold assassin with narcissist tendencies towards the men who have made the person she is today. The deep-routed hate has been building up inside all her life into a murderous rampage that will bring her life full circle. Murder comes easy to Lucy, and finding those responsible for her evil intent, will see her travel the world in search for that missing part of her life she craves. A child of her own. After meeting Stephen Brookes, they fall in love and with her new life in the England, it seems the most idyllic life she could have ever dreamt of having, but that was never going to last, not now that she has opted into the Baby Market. An organisation so despicable, it is using the latest technology for the sole purpose of harvesting those unfortunate children for spare parts for those who can afford it. On Christmas eve, Lucy's baby is ready to be born into her hidden world, but that is just the beginning of her crusade as she has been slowly finding the person responsible for this immoral business she has willingly entered, and now it is time to finish what She started!

Author: Mintel Publications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baby products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Michele Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513731
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Nancy C. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Lydia Martens
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137315032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanings of childhood are enacted in the practices, narratives and materialities of contemporary markets. These meanings formulate what is important in the care of young children, creating moralities that impact not only on new parents, but also circumscribe the possibilities for monetary value creation. Three main understandings of early childhood - those of love, protection and purification - and their interrelationships are covered, and illustrated with examples including food, feeding tools, nappies, travel systems and toys. The book concludes by re-examining the relationship between adulthood and the cultural value of young children, and by discussing the implications of the ways markets address young children, also examines the realities of older children in consumer culture. Childhood and Markets will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, childhood studies, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, business studies and marketing.

Author: Mirah Riben
Publisher: THE STORK MARKET
ISBN: 9781427608956
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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An in-depth examination of the corruption in the adoption industry; the fine line between black and gray market adoption; scams, coercion and exploitation; international adoption; foster care. Foreword by Evelyn Robinson, author, MA, Dip Ed, BSW. Myths that prevail in adoption primarily to replicate motherhood are examined. Myriad of adoption experts are interviewed and quoted throughout who agree that adoption has changed from being child-centered and altruistic social arrangement to one of finding solutions for the medical problem of infertility, putting the needs of adults, and those who profit from their desperation, before the needs of children who need homes. The conclusion asks if adoption can be fixed - the money aspect removed and government controls and regulations put in place - or abolished in favor of permanent guardianship, or informal adoption that does not involve the issuance of a falsified birth certificate present in current adoption to fortify myths of replicating creation. 284 pages 300 footnotes and indexed.

Author: Pamela Paul
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805082494
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what’s worth their money—and what’s a waste Parenting coaches, ergonomic strollers, music classes, sleep consultants, luxury diaper creams, a never-ending rotation of DVDs that will make a baby smarter, socially adept, and bilingual before age three. Time-strapped, anxious parents hoping to provide the best for their baby are the perfect mark for the “parenting” industry. In Parenting, Inc., Pamela Paul investigates the whirligig of marketing hype, peer pressure, and easy consumerism that spins parents into purchasing overpriced products and raising overprotected, overstimulated, and over-provided-for children. Paul shows how the parenting industry has persuaded parents that they cannot trust their children’s health, happiness, and success to themselves. She offers a behind-the-scenes look at the baby business so that any parent can decode the claims—and discover shockingly unuseful products and surprisingly effective services. And she interviews educators, psychologists, and parents to reveal why the best thing for a baby is to break the cycle of self-recrimination and indulgence that feeds into overspending. Paul’s book leads the way for every parent who wants to escape the spiral of fear, guilt, competition, and consumption that characterizes modern American parenthood.