FROM THE BOOK:" I want to touch you and kiss you."" You are my mother's sister and only
one year older; you must have something of my mother in you."—A found child after being …

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of
barrenness with the sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization …

Adoption is a hot topic--played out in the news and on TV talk shows, in advice columns and
tell-all tales--but for the 25 million Americans who are members of the adoption triad of …

This chapter presents a range of definitions and ways of conceptualizing kinship care, and
traces how care by relatives has evolved from a matter of family duty to one of social policy …

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 …

We think of ourselves as authors of our own lives, but in many respects, we have little
authority over our official recorded identities. We are born into families, but our identities are …

This article offers a critique of the work of Quinton, Rushton, Dance and Mayes (1997)
concerning the merits, for the various parties, of the maintenance of contact between …

Recovery From Traumatic Loss: A Study Of Women Living Without Children After Infertility Page
1 University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) Dissertations …

I should have liked there to be a voice behind me which had... carried me to the threshold of
my story... I think a good many people have a similar desire to be freed from the obligation to …

A new form of colonialism, distinctive of the twenty-first century is reported to be taking
shape: data colonialism. Data colonialism interprets the contemporary capture and …