Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption - Hardcover

Carp, E. Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674796683 ISBN 13: 9780674796683

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1998

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Book by Carp E Wayne

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Críticas:

In this lucid and thought-provoking book, Carp reviews the controversies surrounding the management of adoption records in the United States. Identifying the concerns of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents, Carp surveys changing social attitudes toward the importance of family history, governmentally dictated secrecy, and the recognition of often conflicting rights of everyone involved in the adoption triad...Highly recommended for academics, professionals, and the interested public.--Suzanne W. Wood "Library Journal "

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This work looks at the history of adoption in American society and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the 1990s. The author argues that it is ever more apparent that secrecy and disclosure are the defining issues in American adoptions. He discovers that openess used to be the norm before World War II and that this ceased due to a convergence of several unusual cultural, demographic, and social trends. From this American's feelings about biological kinship versus socially constructed families are analyzed, as well as the stigma of adoption - used at times to promote openess and secrecy. Finally suspect psychoanalytic concepts such as "genetic bewilderment", and bogus medical terms, such as "adopted child syndrome", that paints all parties of adoption as psychologically damaged are examined.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674796683
• ISBN 13: 9780674796683
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320