03553nam 2200649 a 450 991045490120332120200520144314.097866122396491-282-23964-30-226-32807-410.7208/9780226328072(CKB)1000000000773736(EBL)448551(OCoLC)567989932(SSID)ssj0000187692(PQKBManifestationID)11178227(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187692(PQKBWorkID)10138145(PQKB)10618906(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121950(MiAaPQ)EBC448551(DE-B1597)523140(OCoLC)1135577758(DE-B1597)9780226328072(Au-PeEL)EBL448551(CaPaEBR)ebr10317886(CaONFJC)MIL223964(EXLCZ)99100000000077373620080128d2008 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrKinship by design[electronic resource] a history of adoption in the modern United States /Ellen HermanChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (394 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-32759-0 0-226-32760-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans' answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption's history. Beginning in the early 1900's, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children's Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America to establish adoption standards in law and practice. She goes on to trace Americans' shifting ideas about matching children with physically or intellectually similar parents, revealing how research in developmental science and technology shaped adoption as it navigated the nature-nurture debate. Concluding with an insightful analysis of the revolution that ushered in special needs, transracial, and international adoptions, Kinship by Design ultimately situates the practice as both a different way to make a family and a universal story about love, loss, identity, and belonging. In doing so, this volume provides a new vantage point from which to view twentieth-century America, revealing as much about social welfare, statecraft, and science as it does about childhood, family, and private life.AdoptionUnited StatesHistory20th centuryOrphansUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.AdoptionHistoryOrphansHistory362.7340973Herman Ellen1957-949741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454901203321Kinship by design2146672UNINA