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<p>Adoption is a hot topic—played out in the news and on TV talk shows, in advice columns and tell-all tales—but for the 25 million Americans who are members of the adoption triad of adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents, the true story of adoption has not been told until now. <i>Family Matters</i> cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.</p> <p>Amid recent controversies over sealed adoption records and open adoption, it is ever more apparent that secrecy and disclosure are the defining issues in American adoptions—and these are also the central concerns of E. Wayne Carp's book. Mining a vast range of sources (including for the first time confidential case records of a twentieth-century adoption agency), Carp makes a startling discovery: openness, not secrecy, has been the norm in adoption for most of our history; sealed records were a post-World War II aberration, resulting from the convergence of several unusual cultural, demographic, and social trends.</p> <p>Pursuing this idea, <i>Fam

Author

Carp, E. Wayne, 1946-

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674001862

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-24