Profiling adoption in the United States today -- "Kids need families to turn out right": public agency adopters -- Transracial adoption in practice -- Making kinship in the wake of history: older child adoption -- The global search for "blue-ribbon babies": international adoption -- Inclusive, exclusive, and contractual families: what adoption can tell us about kinship today
Summary
This book examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. The author analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters, adoptees, birth parents, and agents within and across borders
