Author: Jeanne A. Howard, Ph.D. Published: 2012 December, New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute The first-ever examination of the Internet’s impact on adoption, released today, concludes that social media and other elements of this modern technology are having "transformative" effects – positive and negative – on adoption policy, practice and millions of people’s lives, while raising serious legal, ethical and procedural concerns that have yet to be addressed.













