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Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption

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 | #1840100 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2006-02-25 |  2006-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.88 x.81 x5.75l,.96 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A limited history|By (((Marco Buendia)))|This is a history of adoption, but almost entirely in the context of the United States in the 20th Century. Particular aspects of this history that are highlighted are social work, and, this being America of the last fifty years, the ethnic/racial aspects of adoption.

Almost no exploration of adoption's resonance in older and|From Library Journal|An adoptive mother herself, Melosh (English and history, George Mason Univ.) offers an insightful and well-researched history of adoption in the United States. Although she draws on a broad range of studies, much of her documentation and exa

Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confidence in social engineering. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. It says much about the American experience of family across the twentieth century and our shifting notions of kinship and assimilat...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption   |  Barbara Melosh.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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