Making families through adoption /

This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riley, Nancy
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Other Authors: Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Pine Forge, c2012.
Series:Contemporary family perspectives.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781483349558 (ebook) :