Adopting for God : : The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption / / Soojin Chung.
Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo...
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