Making families through adoption. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nancy E. Riley, Krista E. Van Vleet.
• Other Names: Riley, Nancy; Van Vleet, Krista E, 1965-
• Contents: 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif : SAGE/Pine Forge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 362.7340973; Adoption -- United States; Families -- United States; Intercountry adoption; Interracial adoption; Interethnic adoption; Adoption; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Adoption; Families; Intercountry adoption; Interethnic adoption; Interracial adoption; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452224640; 1452224641; 9781483349558; 1483349551
• Related ISBNs: 9781412998000; 141299800X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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