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Kinship by Design - by Ellen Herman (Paperback)

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  • What constitutes a family?
  • About the Author: Ellen Herman is professor of history at the University of Oregon.
  • 368 Pages
  • History, United States

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What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans' answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption's history.
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 or intellectually similar parents, revealing how research in developmental science and technology shaped adoption as it navigated the nature-nurture debate.
Concluding with an insightful analysis of the revolution that ushered in special needs, transracial, and international adoptions, Kinship by Design ultimately situates the practice as both a different way to make a family and a universal story about love, loss, identity, and belonging. In doing so, this volume provides a new vantage point from which to view twentieth-century America, revealing as much about social welfare, statecraft, and science as it does about childhood, family, and private life.



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Ellen Herman is professor of history at the University of Oregon.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.8 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Ellen Herman
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2008
TCIN: 1007907156
UPC: 9780226327600
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-9166
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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