00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611984227 Buklod 20230619154520.0 m go j ta 110121s2012 cauab rb |001 0|eng d 9781412998000 (pbk.: acid-free paper) (iLib)UPD-00254212629 DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC HV 875.55 R55 2012 Riley, Nancy author. Making families through adoption Nancy E. Riley, Krista E. Van Vleet. Los Angeles SAGE [2012] xi, 155 pages illustrations, maps 23 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Contemporary family perspectives Includes bibliographical references and index. Adoption across cultures -- Adoption in the United States : historical perspectives -- Adoption : private decisions, public influences -- Race, ethnicity, and racism in adoption and fosterage systems -- The practices of transnational adoption. This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context. Adoption United States. Families United States. Intercountry adoption. Interracial adoption. Interethnic adoption. Adoption. Van Vleet, Krista E. author. Ferguson, Susan J. editor. Book FO UPD DMLS HV 875.55 R55 2012 UPD DSWCD HV 875.55 R55 2012 Book