Adoption and Foster Care

Experts

Philip Cohen

Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

Rachel Farr

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky

Kelley Fong

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Elizabeth Gershoff

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Clare Huntington

Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Fordham Law School

Mignon Moore

Professor, Barnard College-Columbia University

Laura Napolitano

Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University - Camden

Brian Powell

Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

Pamela Anne Quiroz

Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Houston

Stephen Russell

Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Samantha Tornello

Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Tammy Turner-Vorbeck

Director, Family Diversity Education Council; Adjunct Faculty, Purdue University

From Steve Jobs to Kids in Foster Care: Lessons During National Adoption MonthOctober 28, 2011
With seemingly ceaseless regularity nowadays, most recently in the coverage of Steve Jobs’ passing, we are inundated by conflicting messages relating to adoption. For the next few weeks, the wonder of adoption will be on display. November is National Adoption Awareness Month, so media outlets nationwide will be — and should be — writing stories about children whose lives are improved as a result of moving from foster care into permanent, loving families. President Obama will even issue a proclamation, as he and his predecessors have done routinely in past years, saying something to the effect that our country is blessed by this extraordinary institution.