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Making families through adoption

Riley, Nancy. (Author). Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 141299800X
ISBN: 9781412998000
ISBN: 1483349551
ISBN: 9781483349558
ISBN: 1452224641
ISBN: 9781452224640
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/Pine Forge, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 -- The sending countries -- Korea -- Romania -- Guatemala -- China and its abandoned girls -- After adoption: the making of transnational families.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.