LEADER 03553nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910454901203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612239649 010 $a1-282-23964-3 010 $a0-226-32807-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226328072 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773736 035 $a(EBL)448551 035 $a(OCoLC)567989932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187692 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11178227 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187692 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10138145 035 $a(PQKB)10618906 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448551 035 $a(DE-B1597)523140 035 $a(OCoLC)1135577758 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226328072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10317886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL223964 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773736 100 $a20080128d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKinship by design$b[electronic resource] $ea history of adoption in the modern United States /$fEllen Herman 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (394 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-32759-0 311 $a0-226-32760-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aAdoption$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aOrphans$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAdoption$xHistory 615 0$aOrphans$xHistory 676 $a362.7340973 700 $aHerman$b Ellen$f1957-$0949741 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454901203321 996 $aKinship by design$92146672 997 $aUNINA