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212 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780253342249
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 01 May 2003
Description
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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212 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780253342249
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 01 May 2003
Description
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...