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Hart, Patricia Susan. "A Home for Every Child; A Child for Every Home: Child Relinquishment and Adoption at Washington Children's Home Society, 1896-1915," American Studies Program, Washington State University, December 1997.
Nonrelative adoption is situated among historical and cultural influences shaping its practice between 1896 and 1915, when it emerged as a Progressive Era solution to child dependency and as a way to empty orphanages. Adoption entered the public discourse freighted with idealized notions of motherhood, childhood, and family life, but those who experienced it gave it their own meaning. Case histories of 298 children relinquished for adoption at Washington Children’s Home Society (Seattle) provide rich insights into adoption and offer important critiques of adoption practice from the point of view of participants-birthparents, adopted children, and adopted families.
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