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The present volume seeks both to acknowledge the present state of the portrayal of adoption in popular culture and to examine those aspects of adoption not usually acknowledged but nevertheless present in popular culture. The first three articles in this collection analyze the images of adoption in wellknown cultural artifacts: the Jurassic Park movies; three popular movies, largely geared to children, that portray the reunion of adoptees and biological parents in American Asian adoptions; and the depiction of motherhood, adoptive and otherwise, in the HBO series based on a contemporary and popular work of fiction, Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere. Alice Diver uses the law and literature to discusses the treatment of children produced by artificial technology, juxtaposing recent legal decisions that leave some children stateless and without rights with literary works that treat children with dubious, "unnatural" origins. Finally, Rukhsar Hussain discusses the derogatory representation in Indian Cinema of the hijra, nonbinary-identifying members of communities in South Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the legal issues related to new paradigms of child adoption in the U.S. Topics discussed include the need of genetic information in medical records recognized by the American Society of Human Genetics, a report that refers to the further moral and legal factors which affect considerations regarding transmission of genetic information and cites the reference of New Jersey court case "Safer v. Estate of Pack" regarding the same.

In this article, the author discusses on the adoption in children's literature. Topics discussed include book "Reading Adoption: Family & Difference in Fiction & Drama" by Marianne Novy, book "Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books" by Jerry Griswold and book "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen.