Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate over Sealed Birth Records - Katarina Wegar - Grāmatas - Yale University Press - 9780300183061 - 2011. gada 1. novembris
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Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate over Sealed Birth Records

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Members of adoption triangles?adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents?must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery outweigh another's wish for confidentiality? In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families.

Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption.



188 pages

Mediji Grāmatas     Paperback Book   (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru)
Izlaists 2011. gada 1. novembris
Oriģinālā izdošanas datums 1997
ISBN13 9780300183061
Izdevēji Yale University Press
Lapas 188
Izmēri 140 × 210 × 10 mm   ·   281 g
Valoda Angļu  

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