ADOPTION LAW (PRFM7008)
2 credits. Lecture.
Recommended: Family Law, Marriage and Divorce or The Family and the State.

This course provides an in-depth examination of adoption law and policy. Private and public adoption systems will be examined with special emphasis on termination of parental rights and the rights of fathers. Emerging issues such as transracial placements, wrongful adoption and open adoption records will be discussed along with the relationship of new reproductive issues to adoption.