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Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records / Katarina Wegar.
LIBRA HV875.55 .W44 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wegar, Katarina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--United States.
- Adoption.
- United States.
- Birthparents--United States--Identification.
- Birthparents.
- Adoptees--United States--Identification.
- Adoptees.
- Confidential communications--United States.
- Confidential communications.
- Registers of births, etc--United States.
- Registers of births, etc.
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 169 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Members of adoption triangles--adoptees, birth parents, and adopting parents--must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery outweigh another's wish for confidentiality? In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-158).
- ISBN:
- 0300067593
- OCLC:
- 34576664
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