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 …

An analysis of the role played by private philanthropic foundations in shaping public policy
during the early years of this century—focusing on foundation-sponsored attempts to …

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 …

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 …

This article explores the campaign, during the first half of the twentieth century, to reform
adoption law and rationalize adoption practice in the United States through a trinity of …

This article takes as its departure a critique of the 'adoption fallacy'underlying the US
Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to argue that the …

This article is the first historical, longitudinal statistical study of adoption triad members-birth
parents, adoptees, and adoptive parent-and of adoption agencies' policies, which uses the …

Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families
in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of …

The legal construct of termination of parental rights-the act of permanently severing the legal
relationship between parent and child-is deeply embedded in contemporary American child …

This article highlights and historically situates three seminal studies on the IQ of adopted
children from the 1920s to the late 1940s. It suggests that both researchers' analysis of IQ in …