The Children Money Can Buy Launches, Exposing Truths - Good and Bad - about Adoption in America

SEATTLE, Feb. 28, 2018 -- Exposing truths, good and bad, about modern adoption and foster care, The Children Money Can Buy, arms readers with much-needed tools for navigating a complex and emotional landscape. Through stories of real children and parents, this new publication from Rowman & Littlefield will move any reader interested in the motivations of love and family, while preparing birth and adoptive families (and the professionals who guide them) for the creation of ethical adoptions.

Exposing truths, good and bad, about modern adoption and foster care, The Children Money Can Buy, arms readers with much-needed tools for navigating a complex and emotional landscape.

Based on decades of first-hand experience as an adoption specialist, Anne Moody shares stories that illustrate the dramatic societal changes in foster care and adoption practice, including the ever-evolving definition of open adoption, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., concerns about international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in the foster care and adoption systems. Moody gives special attention to the practice of “baby brokering,” and the accompanying financial incentives encouraging birth mothers to relinquish their babies, that permeate much of U.S. infant adoption today.

The Children Money Can Buy was written to give voice to birth parents, adoptive families, and the various professionals involved in adoption and child welfare. While it contains a wealth of information specifically aimed at adoptive families, the book has a broader reach as well, presenting knowledge and insight in the form of compelling stories that illustrate larger life lessons about the way our society values—and fails to value—parents and children.

Anne Moody has enjoyed a long career as a counselor, focused first on the U.S. foster care system, then on both domestic and international adoption. Anne is the Director of Adoption Connections, based on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is also an adoptive parent. Both her professional and personal background inform her work as an adoption specialist who advises clients on all aspects of the adoption experience.

"Anne Moody's writing helps open wide the heart,” says Rebecca Wells, author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. “A perfectly arranged mixture of memoir and analysis, The Children Money Can Buy looks back over the author's long career of helping people navigate the shifting and confusing landscape from her experience. Her stories are moving, instructive, and unforgettable, told in a voice that fills the reader with respect and trust.”

Publisher’s Weekly adds, “For any family that has faced the difficult issues of adoption or fostering from any perspective, Moody’s book will be a valuable tool.”

The book is now available for purchase online in hardback and ebook form at Rowman & Littlefield, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

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