Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care A Historical Handbook and Guide

Subjects:

• History » American History -- 1946 to Present
• Economics » Economics (General)
• Education » Education (General)
• Family Resources » Adoption

Reviews:

• [A]skeland has done an admirable job of giving depth and scope to this complex and all-too-often neglected aspect of American childhood. Highly recommended. Collections with a focus on family studies, legal studies, social work, and teacher education, serving lower-level undergraduates and above; public libraries.
  —Choice June 2006
• Few people understand better than adoptees and historians that unobstructed access to the documentary record is an elemental ingredient of narrative truth. In fact, few controversies make it clearer than the debate over sealed records that history itself, both personal and social, is at stake for us all....This collection offers tangible evidence that the history of adoption is gaining traction as a research field with considerable appeal to scholars, teachers, and general audiences alike....[a] valuable contribution to the historical literature, and it will help us to imagine and interpret the diversity of past kinship with greater accuracy, empathy, and creativity. The fact that adoption history can be such a fresh and original focus of historical inquiry early in the twenty-first century suggests that the right revolution of the post-1945 era is enduring and continues to profoundly alter the geography of the past.
  —Adoption Quarterly 2006
• The main value of this book is the synthesis of a great deal of information available in other sources into historical periods and topical categories. The book will probably be of most interest to child welfare practitioners, prospective foster and adoptive parents, and undergraduates who know little about the history of orphanages, foster care and adoption.
  —Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare June 2007

Table of Contents:

• Series Forward by Miriam Forman-Brunell
• Acknowledgements & Dedication
• Part I Essays
• Informal Adoption, Apprentices, and Indentured Children in the Colonial Era and the New Republic, 1605-1850 by Lori Askeland
• Adoption Reform, Orphan Trains, and Child-saving, 1851-1929 by Marilyn Irvin Holt
• Science, Social Work, and Bureaucracy: Cautious Developments in Adoption and Foster Care, 1930-1969 by Dianne Creagh
• Civil Rights, Adoption Rights: Domestic Adoption and Foster Care, 1970 to the Present by Martha Satz and Lori Askeland
• International Adoption by Elizabeth Bartholet
• The Orphan in American Children's Literature by Claudia Nelson
• Part II Documents
• Multicultural Forms of Adoption and Foster Care Before 1850
• "Orphan Trains," Child Saving and the Modernization of Adoption Law, 1851-1929
• Science and Secrecy: Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care, 1930-1969
• Comtemporary Issues in Domestic Adoption, 1970- Present
• International Adoption Law
• Orphans in Literature for American Children
• Part III Bibliography
• General Adoption and Child Welfare History References and Online Resources
• Orphans, Orphanages, and Orphan Stories: Early Forms of Adoption and Fostering in Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Secrecy and Adoption: Infertility, Illegitimacy, Parental Fitness Tests, and the Move to Openess in the 20th Century
• Crossing Boundaries: Issues and Controversies in Comtemporary Foster Care and Adoption
• Index
• Contributors

PDF Catalogs:

Sale Catalog 2008.pdf