PEDIATRICS Vol. 36 No. 5 November 1965, pp. 815-816
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Adopting A Child Today

MORRIS A. WESSEL M.D.

The author of this book possesses strong motivation to improve circumstances surrounding the creation of families through the adoptive process. This aim is praiseworthy for there is great need for better understanding of the various professional responsibilities which the law, social work, and medicine should offer in this area.

The initial chapter, entitled "Agency Adoption," states that couples seeking to adopt should gain through their contacts with a caseworker "new insights into themselves, their feelings about adoption, and the ways in which they will handle the special problems of adoption with the child in the years ahead."