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From Steve Jobs to Kids in Foster Care: Lessons During National Adoption Month

Posted on October 28, 2011 in Opinion Pieces

Experts: Adam Pertman

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.

Topics of Expertise: Adoption & Foster Care

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Philip Cohen, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

Miranda Cunningham

Assistant Professor of Practice at Portland State University Child, Youth, and Family Studies program

Laura Hamilton

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced

Melissa Hardesty, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University

Clare Huntington

Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Fordham Law School

Kevin McHargue

Attorney

Mignon Moore

Associate Professor & Chair of Sociology, Barnard College

Sarah Potter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History, University of Memphis

Brian Powell

James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

Pamela Anne Quiroz

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

Tammy Turner-Vorbeck

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

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