Abstract
The adoption of children in Israel has been drawing a lot of public,political and academic attention. This research is innovative in its analysis of the organizational normative world-view in the Israeli Child Welfare Services (ICWS),as it offers a comprehensive interpretation of the various biases in the ICWS. This essay addresses the question of how the processes of matching in Israeli adoption are designed while using in the conventional approach to content analysis and focusing on three classification tools in relation to the processes of matching in adoption: the willingness form, the special needs category, and priority queues.Among the research findings an interpretation that presupposes a demand for the adoption of certain children and prioritizes the normative family structure. This research points to the deep connections between regulation and commodification in the field of child adoption in Israel.
| Translated title of the contribution | A Suitable Match: Commodification, Normative Perceptions, and the Best Interests of the Child in the Adoption Process in Israel |
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| Original language | Hebrew |
| Pages (from-to) | 52-76 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | סוציולוגיה ישראלית: כתב-עת לחקר החברה הישראלית |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Feb 2024 |