Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929 by Claudia Nelson

Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

Claudia Nelson

212 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929—the first year that every state had an adoption law—the adopte...

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