Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records /

Sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wegar, Katarina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Adoption > United States.
Birthparents > United States > Identification.
Adoptees > United States > Identification.
Confidential communications > United States.
Registers of births, etc. > United States.
Adoption > États-Unis.
Parents naturels > États-Unis > Identification.
Adoptés > États-Unis > Identification.
Secret professionnel > États-Unis.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Adoptees > Identification
Adoption
Birthparents > Identification
Confidential communications
Registers of births, etc.
United States
Field guides
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: adoption and the difference dilemma
  • Adoption, inequality, and the law: the origins of the sealed records controversy
  • Adoption research: trends and perspectives
  • Debating sealed records: the social construction of search narratives
  • Adoption in popular culture: similar yet different
  • Conclusion: adoption in context.

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