Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records /
Sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself a...
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press
©1997.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hk0tz |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: adoption and the difference dilemma
- Adoption, inequality, and the law: the origins of the sealed records controversy
- Adoption research: trends and perspectives
- Debating sealed records: the social construction of search narratives
- Adoption in popular culture: similar yet different
- Conclusion: adoption in context.