The Resource Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption, E. Wayne Carp
Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption, E. Wayne Carp
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The item Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption, E. Wayne Carp represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780674796683
- Label
- Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
- Title
- Family matters
- Title remainder
- secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
- Statement of responsibility
- E. Wayne Carp
- Subject
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- Adoptees -- United States -- Identification
- Adoptie
- Adoption
- Adoption
- Adoption -- United States -- History
- Adoption -- history
- Adoption -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Birthparents
- Birthparents -- United States -- Identification
- Confidential communications
- Confidential communications -- United States
- Enfants adoptés -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Family social work
- Family social work -- United States
- Adoptees -- Identification
- Geschichte
- Gezinsrelaties
- History
- Identification guides
- Open adoption
- Open adoption -- United States -- History
- Parents biologiques -- Etats-Unis -- Identification
- Secret professionnel -- États-Unis
- Service social familial -- États-Unis
- Social Work -- history
- USA
- United States
- Geheimhouding
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carp, E. Wayne
- Dewey number
- 362.73/4/0973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV875.55
- LC item number
- .C38 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Adoption
- Open adoption
- Adoptees
- Birthparents
- Family social work
- Confidential communications
- Adoption
- Social Work
- Parents biologiques
- Adoptees
- Adoption
- Birthparents
- Confidential communications
- Family social work
- Open adoption
- United States
- Adoptie
- Geheimhouding
- Gezinsrelaties
- Adoption
- Enfants adoptés
- Service social familial
- Secret professionnel
- Adoption
- Geschichte
- USA
- Label
- Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption, E. Wayne Carp
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocm37608280
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674796683
- Lccn
- 97040023
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o37608280
- (OCoLC)37608280
- Label
- Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption, E. Wayne Carp
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocm37608280
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674796683
- Lccn
- 97040023
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o37608280
- (OCoLC)37608280
Subject
- Adoptees -- United States -- Identification
- Adoptie
- Adoption
- Adoption
- Adoption -- United States -- History
- Adoption -- history
- Adoption -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Birthparents
- Birthparents -- United States -- Identification
- Confidential communications
- Confidential communications -- United States
- Enfants adoptés -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Family social work
- Family social work -- United States
- Adoptees -- Identification
- Geschichte
- Gezinsrelaties
- History
- Identification guides
- Open adoption
- Open adoption -- United States -- History
- Parents biologiques -- Etats-Unis -- Identification
- Secret professionnel -- États-Unis
- Service social familial -- États-Unis
- Social Work -- history
- USA
- United States
- Geheimhouding
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