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A Child for KeepsConclusions — And Later Developments

A Child for Keeps: Conclusions — And Later Developments [Policies, practices and attitudes in relation to adoption changed enormously during the three decades spanned by this book. After the First World War adoption was seen by many as a last resort for the care of unwanted illegitimate children. By 1950 it was an established way of setting up a family. In 1918 unmarried mothers had been figures of shame to be pitied, helped or despised; by the late 1940s they were increasingly invisible — either the providers of babies for childless couples or silently bringing up their children on their own. The years after the Second World War saw the distillation of a process that began during the interwar years in which the nuclear family — two parents and one or two children — became the dominant model. Adoption of the children of the unmarried fitted neatly into this.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Child for KeepsConclusions — And Later Developments

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-35555-6
Pages
195 –212
DOI
10.1057/9780230582842_9
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Policies, practices and attitudes in relation to adoption changed enormously during the three decades spanned by this book. After the First World War adoption was seen by many as a last resort for the care of unwanted illegitimate children. By 1950 it was an established way of setting up a family. In 1918 unmarried mothers had been figures of shame to be pitied, helped or despised; by the late 1940s they were increasingly invisible — either the providers of babies for childless couples or silently bringing up their children on their own. The years after the Second World War saw the distillation of a process that began during the interwar years in which the nuclear family — two parents and one or two children — became the dominant model. Adoption of the children of the unmarried fitted neatly into this.]

Published: Oct 15, 2015

Keywords: Adopted Child; Potential Adopter; Birth Parent; Unmarried Mother; Adoptive Family

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