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A sealed and secret kinship : the culture of policies and practices in American adoption / Judith S. Modell.
- Title
- A sealed and secret kinship : the culture of policies and practices in American adoption / Judith S. Modell.
- Author
- Schachter, Judith, 1941-
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | HV875.55 .M643 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 220 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Adoption is a controversial subject in the United States, particularly in the last 30 years. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalise and experience adoption forms the subject of this book.
- Series Statement
- Public issues in anthropological perspectives ; v. 3
- Uniform Title
- Public issues in anthropological perspective v. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Field guides
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Opening the subject of adoption -- Banishing secrecy, banishing confidentiality, and opening adoption -- From "drifting" to "permanency" : adoption policy and practice -- Taking (care of) the children : adoptive parents in the twenty-first century -- Opening the confines of kinship : twenty-first century American child placement.
- ISBN
- 1571810773 (cl. : alk. paper)
- 1571813241 (pb.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001049957
- OCLC
- 48083689
- SCSB-10254212
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library