A Sealed and Secret Kinship: Policies and Practices in American Adoption

by Judith Schachter Modell

Book Overview

Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the subject of this book. Adoption, the author argues, touches on major preoccupations we all have: who we are; why we are what we are; the balance of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571813241
• ISBN13: 9781571813244
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"