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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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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
  • USA Government
  • Adoptive parents > United States > Family relationships
  • Adoption > Government policy > United States
  • Open adoption > United States
  • Adoptees > United States > Identification
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