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Adoption, family and the paradox of origins : a Foucauldian history /
It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is sti...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2012.
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing the study
- Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption
- Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War
- Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption
- Differences and identities: the making of contemporary adoption
- Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption"
- Introducing the archive study
- Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact
- Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact
- Conclusions.