Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp.
1998
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Author
Title
Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Call Number
HV875.55 .C38 1998
ISBN
0674796683 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xii, 304 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37608280
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-285) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
A Note on Language
1
The Rise of Adoption
1
2
The Origins of Adoption Records
36
3
When Adoption Was No Secret
71
4
The Ephemeral Age of Secrecy
102
5
The Emergence of the Adoption Rights Movement
138
6
The Adoption Records Wars
167
7
From Open Records to Open Adoption
196
Epilogue: The Prospects for Adoption
223
Notes
237
Acknowledgments
287
Index
291