Economic and Market Determinants in Israeli Adoption Practices

Publication Date: January 1986

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Eliezer D. Jaffe

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Israeli Jews; Jewish Organizations; Adoption

Type: Report

Coverage: Israel

Abstract:

Perhaps of all the policy responses to the problems created by supply and demand factors in adoption work, one of the most controversial, or overlooked, concerns the definition of the professional responsibility and services due to candidates for adoption who have been rejected and those who, having been approved, will have to wait years before they receive a child. To these categories we may now add a third category, those who are now ineligible to even apply. In a sense, the logistics of supply and demand in adoptions and the social policies formulated in response to this situation have resulted in the creation of a relatively large number of new clients for the social services.