Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States /

What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans? answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption?s history. Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a varie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herman, Ellen, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
Adoption > United States > History > 20th century.
Orphans > United States > History > 20th century.
Adoption > history
Child, Orphaned > history
Adoption > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Adoption
Orphans
Waisenkind
Adoptie.
Adoption > historia > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Electronic books > History.
Electronic book.
Computer network resources.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood)
  • Making adoption governable
  • Rules for realness
  • Matching and the mirror of nature
  • The measure of other people's children
  • Adoption revolutions
  • The difference difference makes
  • Damaged children, therapeutic lives
  • Reckoning with risk.

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