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Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption
E. Wayne Carp
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Description for Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption
Hardcover. Num Pages: 422 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 771.
Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908–2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton’s ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement’s most vital organisations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress.
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Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908–2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton’s ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement’s most vital organisations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119103
SKU
V9780472119103
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About E. Wayne Carp
E. Wayne Carp is Benson Family Chair and Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
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