LEADER 03924nam 2200673 450 001 9910463909603321 005 20211104221307.0 010 $a0-472-02990-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000544880 035 $a(EBL)3570527 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134145 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11608110 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134145 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162811 035 $a(PQKB)10811276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570527 035 $a(OCoLC)871258019 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35012 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.6242018 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570527 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841665 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL577603 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000544880 100 $a20140310h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption /$fE. Wayne Carp 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-472-11910-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 330 $a"Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton's ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970's. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement's most vital organizations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress. Using previously unexamined sources, historian E. Wayne Carp offers the first-ever biography of Jean Paton. Beginning in 1951, Paton, a twice-adopted, middle-aged ex-social worker, dedicated her life to overcoming American society's prejudices against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Her unflagging efforts over the next five decades helped reverse social workers' harmful policy and practice concerning adoption and sealed adoption records and change lawmakers' enactment of laws prejudicial to adult adoptees and birth mothers, struggles that continue to this day"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAdoption$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aOpen adoption$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAdoptees$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBirthparents$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial workers$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAdoption$xHistory. 615 0$aOpen adoption$xHistory. 615 0$aAdoptees$xHistory. 615 0$aBirthparents$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial workers 676 $a362.734092 700 $aCarp$b E. Wayne$f1946-$0851400 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463909603321 996 $aJean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption$91900904 997 $aUNINA