Riley, Nancy.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/Pine Forge, c2012.
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Part of the series Contemporary family perspectives;Contemporary family perspectives.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-142) and index.
- Introduction: Making families: inequalities and intimacies of adoption — Adoption in the United States — Adoption and statistics –
- 1. Adoption across cultures — Ethnographic cases — Preference for fostering in West Africa — Commonality of child circulation in the Andes — Stigma of adoption in the Middle East — Exploring the significance of cases — Debunking the opposition between natural and adoptive parents — Who is responsible for raising children? — History comes up behind us: fostering and adoption as shaped by context –
- 2. Adoption in the United States : historical perspectives — Children’s role in society — What makes a family? Contradictions and controversies in American adoption — Growing demand for adoptable babies and the increased regulation of adoptions: Who are the best mothers? — Adoption secrecy in the formation of as-if families — Making families through adoption in the postwar period — Adoption in the United States today — Open adoption –
- 3. Adoption : private decisions, public influences — Who adopts? Who is adopted? — socioeconomic class: the power of money — The children: characteristics of adopted children — The parents: marital status and sexual orientation — What makes a proper family? Interpreting social norms — The role of the State — Comparative perspectives on government’s role in adoption — Adoption in China — Adoption in Norway –
- 4. Race, ethnicity, and racism in adoption and fosterage systems — Race: a social construct, a forceful reality — Race in U.S. adoption history — Transracial adoption: issues and debates — The Foster System and adoption in the United States — Native Americans and adoption in the United States and Canada –
- 5. The practices of transnational adoption — The global transfer of children — Rules governing intercountry adoptions — The receiving countries — Early international adoption as humanitarian aid — The United States — Adoption in Norway — The sending countries — Korea — Romania — Guatemala — China and its abandoned girls — After adoption: the making of transnational families.
Subjects:
- Adoption — United States.
- Families — United States.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Interracial adoption.
- Interethnic adoption.
- Adoption.
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