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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Wegar, Katarina
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ©1997.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hk0tz
目次:
  • 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.