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Strangers and kin : the American way of adoption /

Melosh, Barbara.

Strangers and kin : the American way of adoption / Barbara Melosh. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. - x, 326 p. ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Wanted-A Child To Raise as Our Own: Claiming Strangers as Kin -- 2 Families by Design: "Fitness" and "Fit" in the Creation of Kin -- 3 The "Best Solution": Adoption Embraced -- 4 Redrawing the Boundaries: Transracial and International Adoption -- 5 "Tell It Slant": Adoption and Disclosure -- 6 Adoption Challenged: Beyond the Best Solution.

0674009126 (alk. paper)

2002017159


Adoption--United States.
Adoption--History.--United States

HV875.55 / .M444 2002

362.73/4/0973