Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
Resource Information
The work Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource
Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
Resource Information
The work Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
- Title remainder
- secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
- Statement of responsibility
- E. Wayne Carp
- 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
- 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
- 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
Context
Context of Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoptionWork of
No resources found
No enriched resources found
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/uxk7hhpPgDM/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/uxk7hhpPgDM/">Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Work Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/uxk7hhpPgDM/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/resource/uxk7hhpPgDM/">Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.waubonsee.edu/">Waubonsee Community College</a></span></span></span></span></div>