Contents
This Section Includes:
I. Brief Table of Contents
II. Detailed Table of Contents
I. Brief Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Adoption Across Cultures
Chapter 2: Adoption in the United States: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 3: Adoption: Private Decisions, Public Influences
Chapter 4: Race. Racism, Adoption, and Fostering
Chapter 5: The Practices of Transnational Adoption
Bibliography
II. Detailed Table of Contents
*Each chapter includes a Conclusion
Introduction
Chapter 1. Adoption Across Cultures
Ethnographic Cases
The Preference for Fostering in West Africa
The Commonality of Child Circulation in the Andes
The Stigma of Adoption in the Middle East
Exploring the Significance of Cases
Debunking the Opposition Between "Natural" and "Adoptive" Parents
Who is Responsible for Raising Children?
History Comes Up Behind Us: Fostering and Adoption as Shaped by Context
Chapter 2. Adoption in the United States: Historical Perspectives
Children's Role in Society
What Makes a Family? Contradictions and Controversies in American Adoption
The Growing Demand for "Adoptable" Babies and the Increased Regulation of Adoption: Who Makes the "Best" Mothers?
Adoption Secrecy in the Formation of "As If" Families
Making Families through Adoption in the Post-War Period
Adoption in the United States Today
Open Adoption
Chapter 3. Adoption: Private Decisions, Public Influences
Who Adopts? Who is Adopted?
The Children: Characteristics of Adopted Children
The Parents: Marital Status and Sexual Orientation
What Makes a Proper Family? Interpreting Social Norms
The Role of the State
Comparative Perspectives on Government's Role in Adoption
Adoption in China
Adoption in Norway
Chapter 4. Race. Racism, Adoption, and Fostering
Race-A Social Construct, A Forceful Reality
Race in U.S. Adoption History
Transracial Adoption
Fostering and Adoption in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century
American Indians, Adoption, and Community Control
Chapter 5. The Practices of Transnational Adoption
The Global Transfer of Children
Rules Governing Intercountry Adoptions
The Receiving Countries
Early International Adoption as Humanitarian Aid
The United States
Adoption in Norway
Sending Countries
Korea
Romania
Guatemala
China and Its Abandoned Girls
After Adoption: The Making of Transnational Families
Bibliography
