Adoption, family and the paradox of origins [electronic resource] : a Foucauldian history / Sally Sales.

"It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Sales, Sally, 1957-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
Subjects:	Adoption. Open adoption. Adoptees > Identification.