bytes: read about adoption in history

READ ABOUT … ADOPTION IN HISTORY

Alstein, Howard and Rita J. Simon (Editors). Intercountry Adoption: A Multinational Perspective. Praeger Pub. Text, 1991.

Austin, Linda Tollett. Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children’s Home Adoption Scandal. Praeger Pub. Text, 1993.

Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. Vintage Books, 1990.

Carp, E. Wayne (Editor). Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives. U. of Michigan Press, 2002.

Doneson, Jules. Deeds of Love: A History of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia-America’s First Jewish Orphanage. Vantage Press, 1996.

Dulberger, Judith A. Mother Donit Fore the Best: Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum. Syracuse U. Press, 1996.

Flood, Renee Samsom. Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota. Scribner, 1995.

Gager, Kristin Elizabeth. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. Princeton U. Press, 1996.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. U. of Nebraska, 1994.

Kerr, Rita. The Texas Orphans: A Story of the Orphan Train Children. Eakin Pub., 1994.

 

Kunzel, Regina. Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945. Yale U. Press, 1995.

Modell, Judith S. Kinship With Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture. U. of California Press, 1994.

Odem, Mary. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexualty in the Untied States, 1885-1920. U. of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Patrick, Michael, Evelyn Sheets, and Evelyn Trikel. We Are a Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains. Michael Patrick, 1995.

Riben, Marsha. Dark Side of Adoption. Marsha Riben, 1988.

Skolnick, Sharon and Manny Skolnick. Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage. U. of Nebraska Press, 1998.

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