Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / Claudia Nelson.
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 adoptee's main function was seen as emotional...
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