Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care : a historical handbook and guide / edited by Lori Askeland.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, (c)2006.Description: xvii, 222 pages ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV875 .C455 2006
  • HV875
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Contents:
Essays -- Informal adoption, apprentices, and indentured children in the colonial era and the new republic, 1605-1850 / Lori Askeland -- Adoption reform, orphan trains, and child saving, 1851-1929 / Marilyn Irvin Holt -- Science, social work, and bureaucracy : cautious developments in adoption and foster care, 1930-1969 / Dianne Creagh -- Civil rights, adoption rights : domestic adoption and foster care, 1970 to the present / Martha Satz and Lori Askeland -- International adoption / Elizabeth Bartholet -- The orphan in American children's literature / Claudia Nelson -- Documents -- Multicultural forms of adoption and foster care before 1850 -- "Orphan trains," child-saving, and the modernization of adoption law, 1851-1929 -- Science and secrecy : adoption, orphanages, and foster care, 1930-1969 -- Contemporary issues in domestic adoption, 1970-present -- International adoption law -- Orphans in literature for American children -- General adoption and child welfare history references and online resources -- Orphans, orphanages, and orphan stories : early forms of adoption and fostering in multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives -- Secrecy and adoption : infertility, illegitimacy, parental "fitness" tests, and the move to openness in the 20th century -- Crossing boundaries : issues and controversies in contemporary foster care and adoption.
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Essays -- Informal adoption, apprentices, and indentured children in the colonial era and the new republic, 1605-1850 / Lori Askeland -- Adoption reform, orphan trains, and child saving, 1851-1929 / Marilyn Irvin Holt -- Science, social work, and bureaucracy : cautious developments in adoption and foster care, 1930-1969 / Dianne Creagh -- Civil rights, adoption rights : domestic adoption and foster care, 1970 to the present / Martha Satz and Lori Askeland -- International adoption / Elizabeth Bartholet -- The orphan in American children's literature / Claudia Nelson -- Documents -- Multicultural forms of adoption and foster care before 1850 -- "Orphan trains," child-saving, and the modernization of adoption law, 1851-1929 -- Science and secrecy : adoption, orphanages, and foster care, 1930-1969 -- Contemporary issues in domestic adoption, 1970-present -- International adoption law -- Orphans in literature for American children -- General adoption and child welfare history references and online resources -- Orphans, orphanages, and orphan stories : early forms of adoption and fostering in multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives -- Secrecy and adoption : infertility, illegitimacy, parental "fitness" tests, and the move to openness in the 20th century -- Crossing boundaries : issues and controversies in contemporary foster care and adoption.

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