Name: Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records (en Inglés)
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Author: Katarina Wegar
ISBN: 9780300183061

portada Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

Katarina Wegar

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

188

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0300183062

ISBN13

9780300183061

Categorías

Adopción y acogimiento
Adopción y acogimiento

Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records (en Inglés)

Katarina Wegar (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Members of adoption triangles―adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents―must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery outweigh another's wish for confidentiality? In this thoughtful book, sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families.Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption.