02494nam 2200553Ia 450 991082620760332120200520144314.01-282-44527-897866124452790-472-02463-9(CKB)2520000000006797(EBL)3414574(OCoLC)842259876(SSID)ssj0000333923(PQKBManifestationID)11242262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333923(PQKBWorkID)10378535(PQKB)11512693(MiAaPQ)EBC3414574(EXLCZ)99252000000000679720020621d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAdoption in America historical perspectives /edited by E. Wayne Carp1st ed.Ann Arbor University of Michigan Pressc20021 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-472-03054-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: A Historical Overview of American Adoption; A Good Home: Indenture and Adoption in Nineteenth-Century Orphanages; Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature; What's Love Got to Do with It?: "Adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England; A Historical Comparison of Catholic and Jewish Adoption Practices in Chicago, 1833-1933; Rescue a Child and Save the Nation: The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911A Nation's Need for Adoption and Competing Realities: The Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915Adoption Agencies and the Search for the Ideal Family,1918-1965; When in Doubt, Count: World War II as a Watershed in the History of Adoption; Adoption Stories: Autobiographical Narrative and the Politics of Identity; Contributors; IndexCollects essays that provide an overview of the history of adoption in the United States.AdoptionUnited StatesHistoryAdopteesUnited StatesHistoryAdoptionHistory.AdopteesHistory.362.73Carp E. Wayne1946-1628516MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826207603321Adoption in America4191463UNINA