Notes on Kinship with Strangers
Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture, by Judith S. Modell (1994)
The state cannot make me a grasshopper or a June bug, or this chair, a table; how then did it become empowered to decree who was whose child? Modell explains, in the first chapter of this book, why American adoption procedures moved from the legislatures to the courts, but not why governments acquired the power to determine kinship in the first place. T…
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