03941oam 22006734 450 991078787440332120161228113527.00-472-02990-810.3998/mpub.6242018(CKB)2670000000544880(EBL)3570527(SSID)ssj0001134145(PQKBManifestationID)11608110(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134145(PQKBWorkID)11162811(PQKB)10811276(MiAaPQ)EBC3570527(OCoLC)871258019(MdBmJHUP)muse35012(MiU)10.3998/mpub.6242018(Au-PeEL)EBL3570527(CaPaEBR)ebr10841665(CaONFJC)MIL577603(EXLCZ)99267000000054488020130909d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrJean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption /E. Wayne CarpAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2014]1 online resource (432 p.)Includes index.0-472-11910-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Search for Identity""; ""2. The Birth of a Reformer""; ""3. The Life History Study Center""; ""4. On the Road""; ""5. Religion and Reunion""; ""6. Illegitimacy, Traumatic Neurosis, and the Problem of Affliction""; ""7. Orphan Voyage""; ""8. Orphan Voyage Moves South""; ""9. The New Adoption Reform Movement""; ""10. Organizing the Movement""; ""11. Sealed Adoption Records""; ""12. Ombudsman""; ""13. The American Adoption Congress""; ""14. Straight Ahead""; ""15. The Great American Tragedy""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index"""Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton's ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement's most vital organizations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress. Using previously unexamined sources, historian E. Wayne Carp offers the first-ever biography of Jean Paton. Beginning in 1951, Paton, a twice-adopted, middle-aged ex-social worker, dedicated her life to overcoming American society's prejudices against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Her unflagging efforts over the next five decades helped reverse social workers' harmful policy and practice concerning adoption and sealed adoption records and change lawmakers' enactment of laws prejudicial to adult adoptees and birth mothers, struggles that continue to this day"--Provided by publisher.AdoptionUnited StatesHistoryOpen adoptionUnited StatesHistoryAdopteesUnited StatesHistoryBirthparentsUnited StatesHistorySocial workersUnited StatesBiographyAdoptionHistory.Open adoptionHistory.AdopteesHistory.BirthparentsHistory.Social workers362.734092BBIO022000FAM004000POL029000bisacshCarp E. Wayne1946-1582169Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910787874403321Jean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption3864286UNINA