Strangers and Kin : The American Way of Adoption / Barbara Melosh.
Melosh, Barbara, author.
2022
HV875.55 ǂb M444 2006eb
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Title Strangers and Kin : The American Way of Adoption / Barbara Melosh.
Author Melosh, Barbara, author.
ISBN 9780674040915
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040915
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674040915 doi
Call Number HV875.55 ǂb M444 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.7340973
Summary 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.
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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

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