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Adoption,
Identity, and Kinship : The Debate over Sealed Birth Records
by Katarina Wegar
Hardcover, $22.50
Published by Yale Univ Pr
Publication date: April 1997
"Activists who
strive for social change face a fundamental strategic and moral dilemma. On
the one hand, arguments that resonate with existing values and beliefs generally
are more convincing and therefore more effective than those that challenge accepted
wisdom. On the other hand, by using the traditional arguments, social activists
risk reinforcing old stereotypes and labels of inferiority and difference. This
dilemma has shaped the ongoing debate over the right of adoptees to have access
to identifying information about their biological parents -- the so-called search
or sealed records controversy. The failure to examine critically society's view
of adoptees as similar yet different from children who live with their biological
parents has led the search movement to perpetuate confining images of adoption,
kinship and identity. In this respect the arguments of such activists follow
the tradition of adoption research that has dominated public discourse on the
topic. Neither side understands the experience of adoption within a social context,
and as a consequence both tend to pathologize adoptive kinship." - Chapter
1, page 1 Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Read a book review of Adoption, Identity and Kinship by Ron Morgan from The Bastard Quarterly.
The
Adoption Triangle : Sealed or Opened Records: How They Affect Adoptees, Birth
Parents, and Adoptive Parents
by Arthur D. Sorosky, Annette Baran, Reuben Pannor
Paperback, 293 pages
List: $9.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $8.95
Family
Matters : Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption
by E. Wayne Carp
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published by Harvard Univ Pr
Publication date: April 1998
ISBN: 0674796683
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.
Read a book review of Family Matters by Cynthia Bertrand Holub from The Bastard Quarterly
The History and Consequences of Sealing
Adoption Records
by Janine Baer
Price: $ 25.00
Adoptee-scholar Janine Baer examines how records were sealed to the general public and then later to adoptees in the state of California.
Right of Adoptees to Know Their Biological Parents : A Bibliography
by Tim J. Watts
Paperback List: $5.00-- Amazon.com Price: $5.00 + $2.35 special surcharge Published by Vance Bibliographies Publication date: November 1988
Hardcover List: $25.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $25.00 Published by Katherine W Kimbell Publication date: June 1992
Paperback List: $13.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $12.55 -- You Save: $1.40(10%) Published by Lexington Books Publication date: August 1,1990Book News, Inc., 11/30/89: Sachdev (social work, Cleveland State U.) describes the members of the adoption rectangle (adoptive parents, birth mothers, adoptees, and social work personnel) and their attitudes toward opening adoption records. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an unavailable edition of this title.
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