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Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care : a historical handbook and guide / edited by Lori Askeland.
Van Pelt Library HV875.55 .C45 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Children and youth (Westport, Conn.)
- Children and youth
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--United States--History.
- Adoption--United States--History--Sources.
- Orphanages--United States--History.
- Orphanages--United States--History--Sources.
- Foster children--United States--History.
- Foster children--United States--History--Sources.
- Child welfare--United States--History.
- Child welfare.
- History.
- Foster children.
- Orphanages.
- Adoption.
- United States.
- Child welfare--United States--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Written by experts in the field, this authoritative and accessible volume is the first comprehensive introductory history of adoption and foster care in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present, giving particular attention to the controversies surrounding interracial adoption and international adoption now.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. 1. Essays. Informal adoption, apprentices, and indentured children in the colonial era and the new republic, 1605-1850 / Lori Askeland. Adoption reform, orphan trains, and child-saving, 1851-1929 / Marilyn Irvin Holt. Science, social work, and bureaucracy : cautious developments in adoption and foster care, 1930-1969 / Dianne Creagh. Civil rights, adoption rights : domestic adoption and foster care, 1970 to the present / Martha Satz and Lori Askeland. International adoption / Elizabeth Bartholet. The orphan in American children's literature / Claudia Nelson
- Pt. 2. Documents. Multicultural forms of adoption and foster care before 1850. "Orphan trains," child-saving, and the modernization of adoption law, 1851-1929. Science and secrecy : adoption, orphanages, and foster care, 1930-1969. Contemporary issues in domestic adoption, 1970 to the present. International adoption law. Orphans in literature for American children
- Pt. 3. Bibliography. General adoption and child welfare history references and online resources. Orphans, orphanages, and orphan stories : early forms of adoption and fostering in multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. Secrecy and adoption : infertility, illegitimacy, parental "fitness" standards, and the move to openness in the twentieth century. Crossing boundaries : issues and controversies in contemporary foster care and adoption.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313331839
- OCLC:
- 61352889
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