Strangers and Kin : : The American Way of Adoption / / Barbara Melosh.
Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinchin...
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Melosh, Barbara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Strangers and Kin : The American Way of Adoption / Barbara Melosh. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2002 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Wanted-A Child To Raise as Our Own: Claiming Strangers as Kin -- 2. Families by Design: "Fitness" and "Fit" in the Creation of Kin -- 3. The "Best Solution": Adoption Embraced -- 4. Redrawing the Boundaries: Transracial and International Adoption -- 5. "Tell It Slant": Adoption and Disclosure -- 6. Adoption Challenged: Beyond the Best Solution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040915?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040915 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674040915/original |
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