ABSTRACT
Preparation for work in the field of arranging adoptions requires knowledge of the law, an understanding of the emotional development of the human being starting from a very early age, and also training in casework. In actual fact, only about thirty percent of adoptions are arranged through the adoption societies. The rest are at present either third-party adoptions or are direct placings by the mother or are arranged in a more or less haphazard way. The student of the subject needs to read widely, and to doctors it can be said that a light-hearted arranging of an adoption implies a lack of real understanding of the factors involved. An important fact in this case is the stability of the marriage of the adoptive parents, and in retrospect one can say that the degree to which they were upset at their own failure to produce a child is to some extent a measure of their own health.
