Adoption is closely intertwined with many issues that are central to public policy in this
country-welfare and poverty, race and class, and gender. An analysis of the history of …

Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United
States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian …

Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary
research. Too often, however, birth parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, social workers …

" The study of transracial adoption has long been dominated by historians, legal scholars,
and social scientists, but with the growth of the lively field of humanistic adoption studies …

Adoption touches upon almost every aspect of American society and culture and commands
our attention by the enormous number of people who have a direct, intimate connection to it …

Professor Dorothy Roberts, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern
University Law School, has written a compelling book on the inadequacies of the …

This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed,
ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child …

The history of adoption has been one of the most neglected topics in the field of social
history. There are several explanations for this lacuna. This is an intensely interdisciplinary …

Adoption was practised in the US before the founding of the country and it has been legally
codified since the mid-1800s. Layers of state and federal laws have since expanded the …

This study finds that the National Urban League, in the middle decades of the 20th century,
led widespread efforts by child welfare agencies to recruit adoptive African American homes …