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- catalog abstract "Family Matters cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present. Amid recent controversies over sealed adoption records and open adoption, it is ever more apparent that secrecy and disclosure are the defining issues in American adoptions - and these are also the central concerns of E. Wayne Carp's book. Mining a vast range of sources (including for the first time confidential case records of a twentieth-century adoption agency), Carp makes a startling discovery: openness, not secrecy, has been the norm in adoption for most of our history; sealed records were a post-World War II aberration, resulting from the convergence of several unusual cultural, demographic, and social trends. Pursuing this idea, Family Matters offers surprising insights into various notions that have affected the course of adoption, among them Americans' complex feelings about biological kinship versus socially constructed families; the stigma of adoption, used at times to promote both openness and secrecy; and, finally, suspect psychoanalytic concepts, such as "genealogical bewilderment," and bogus medical terms, such as "adopted child syndrome," that paint all parties to adoption as psychologically damaged.".
- catalog contributor b10584728.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Amid recent controversies over sealed adoption records and open adoption, it is ever more apparent that secrecy and disclosure are the defining issues in American adoptions - and these are also the central concerns of E. Wayne Carp's book. Mining a vast range of sources (including for the first time confidential case records of a twentieth-century adoption agency), Carp makes a startling discovery: openness, not secrecy, has been the norm in adoption for most of our history; sealed records were a post-World War II aberration, resulting from the convergence of several unusual cultural, demographic, and social trends.".
- catalog description "Family Matters cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-285) and index.".
- catalog description "Pursuing this idea, Family Matters offers surprising insights into various notions that have affected the course of adoption, among them Americans' complex feelings about biological kinship versus socially constructed families; the stigma of adoption, used at times to promote both openness and secrecy; and, finally, suspect psychoanalytic concepts, such as "genealogical bewilderment," and bogus medical terms, such as "adopted child syndrome," that paint all parties to adoption as psychologically damaged.".
- catalog description "The rise of adoption -- The origins of adoption records -- When adoption was no secret -- The ephemeral age of secrecy -- The emergence of the Adoption Rights Movement -- The adoption records wars -- From open records to open adoption -- The prospects for adoption.".
- catalog extent "xii, 304 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Family matters.".
- catalog identifier "0674796683 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Family matters.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Family matters.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.73/4/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Adoptees United States Identification.".
- catalog subject "Adoption United States History.".
- catalog subject "Birthparents United States Identification.".
- catalog subject "Confidential communications United States.".
- catalog subject "Family social work United States.".
- catalog subject "HV875.55 .C38 1998".
- catalog subject "Open adoption United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The rise of adoption -- The origins of adoption records -- When adoption was no secret -- The ephemeral age of secrecy -- The emergence of the Adoption Rights Movement -- The adoption records wars -- From open records to open adoption -- The prospects for adoption.".
- catalog title "Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp.".
- catalog type "Guidebooks. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".