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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children?s Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America to establish adoption standards in law and practice. She goes on to trace Americans? shifting ideas about matching children with physically or intellectually sim. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 381 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226328072 0226328074 9786612239649 6612239646 1282239643 9781282239647 |