TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Melosh, Barbara, CN - HV875.55 ǂb M444 2006eb DO - 10.4159/9780674040915 DO - doi ID - 1478595 JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering. LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040915 N2 - 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. SN - 9780674040915 T1 - Strangers and Kin :The American Way of Adoption / TI - Strangers and Kin :The American Way of Adoption / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040915 ER -