Adoption in India: policies and experiences/
Vinita Bhargava
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2005.
- 283 p.
Introduction -- Theoretical paradigms and research findings -- Adoption and the Indian socio-political context -- Socio-cultural dimensions of adoption in India -- Researching adoption : the cultural reality -- Alternative parenting -- Construction of the self in an adopted child -- Family interactions and self-evaluations -- Epilogue.