Kinship by design [electronic resource] : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xii, 381 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.7340973 22
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  • HV875.55 .H47 2008eb
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Contents:
The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.

The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.

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