TY - BOOK AU - Melosh,Barbara TI - Strangers and kin: the American way of adoption SN - 0674009126 (alk. paper) AV - HV875.55 .M444 2002 U1 - 362.73/4/0973 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Adoption KW - United States KW - History N1 - American Window; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002017159.html ER -