Catalogue by titles / A Sealed and Secret Kinship: The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-ADOPT US-037 |
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| Title | A Sealed and Secret Kinship: The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption |
| Author | MODELL Judith |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-2002 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Books, New york, Oxford - www.berghahnbooks.com |
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| Page | 220 |
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| ISBN | 1 57181 324 1 |
| Type of material | Book |
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UNITED STATES |
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Secrecy-origin Legislation-comment Foster-care Child-rights Origins-info Special-needs-child Paps-eligibility |
| Free text | The author comments on inconsistencies that exist in the practice and concept of adoption of children in the US. The new 'openness' to the practice of adoption turns it into something that is talked about, reflecting primarily the needs to obtain information expressed by adoptees and birth parents. In a society where blood ties are still considered as most important, openness thus means something different to different groups, and is handled according to basic concepts of kinship and family . The author points out the difference and discriminating attitudes and policies relating to foster care as a less 'committed' sort of placement option for children compared to the permanency of adoption where so often even birth certificates were altered to establish a more 'normal' kinship (On November 1997 the Adoption and Safe Families Act was signed giving priority to the permanent care of children over long-term fostering). |
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