Kinship By Design

“Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S.Children’s Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America to establish adoption standards in law and practice. She goes on to trace Americans’ shifting ideas about matching children with physically and intellectually similar parents, revealing how research in developmental science and technology shaped adoption as it navigated the nature-nurture debate.”

Status: 1 in stock (can be backordered)

Published: 2008

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 0226327600

ID#: 2866

DC#: 362.734 He