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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主要作者: Wegar, Katarina
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ©1997.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hk0tz
書本目錄:
  • 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.