An edition of Strangers and Kin
(2002)
Strangers and Kin
The American Way of Adoption
New Ed edition
by Barbara Melosh
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"Strangers and Kin is a history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confidence in social engineering. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. It says much about the American experience of family across the twentieth century and our shifting notions of kinship and assimilation.
Above all, it speaks of real people striving to make families out of strangers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption
February 25, 2006, Harvard University Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0674019539 9780674019539
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Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption
November 8, 2002, Harvard University Press
Hardcover
in English
0674009126 9780674009127
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