Strangers and Kin - The American Way of Adoption

Klappentext Taking the history of adoption into the early 21st century! "Strangers and Kin" 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. Zusammenfassung Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people’s children as their own. She offers valuable 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Melosh, Melosh Barbara
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2006
• EAN: 9780674019539
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01953-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / United States / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships