Kinship by Design A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

Name: Kinship by Design A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
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ISBN: 9780226327600

ISBN-10: 0226327604

ISBN-13: 9780226327600

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ellen Herman

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What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans7; answer to this question over the past century,Kinship by Designprovides the fullest account to date of modern adoption7;s history. Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children7;s Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America to establish adoption standards in law and practice. She goes on to trace Americans7; shifting ideas about matching children with physically or intellectually similar parents, revealing how research in developmental science and technology shaped adoption as…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Family Making in an Age of Uncertainty



Regulation and Interpretation, 1900-1945



The Perils of Money and Sentiment (and Custom, Accident, Impulse, Intuition, Common Sense, Faith, and Bad Blood)



Making Adoption Governable



Rules for Realness



Standardization and Naturalization, 1930-1960



Matching and the Mirror of Nature



The Measure of Other People's Children



Difference and Damage, 1945-1975



Adoption Revolutions



The Difference Difference Makes



Damaged Children, Therapeutic Lives


Epilogue: Reckoning with Risk


Notes


Index