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Timeline of Adoption History
Bastard Nation
Viola Wertheim Bernard
Charles Loring Brace
Pearl S. Buck
Child Welfare League of America
Concerned United Birthparents
Anna Freud
Sigmund Freud
Arnold Gesell
Bertha and Harry Holt
Justine Wise Polier
Jessie Taft
Sophie van Senden Theis
U.S. Children's Bureau
Neva R. Deardorff, The Children's Commission of Pennsylvania Studies Adoption, 1925
Ida Parker, Fit and Proper? 1927
Helen Lucile Pearson, “Child Adoption in Indiana,” 1925
Catherine S. Amatruda and Joseph V. Baldwin, ”Current Adoption Practices,” 1951
David Fanshel, Far from the Reservation, 1972
Benson Jaffee and David Fanshel, How They Fared in Adoption, 1970
Ruth W. Lawton and J. Prentice Murphy, “A Study of Results of a Child-Placing Society,” 1915
Sophie van Senden Theis, How Foster Children Turn Out, 1924
Margaret A. Valk, “Adjustment of Korean-American Children in Their American Adoptive Homes,” 1957
Helen Witmer, et al, Independent Adoptions: A Follow-Up Study, 1963
Harry F. Harlow, Monkey Love Experiments
Marshall D. Schechter, “Observations on Adopted Children,” 1960
Adoption History in Brief
Adoption Narratives
Adoption Statistics
African-American Adoptions
Baby Farming
Birth Parents
Child Welfare
Confidentiality and Sealed Records
Eugenics
The Family Nobody Wanted, 1954
“Feeble-Minded” Children
Field Studies
First Specialized Adoption Agencies
Fostering and Foster Care
Home Studies
Illegitimacy
Indian Adoption Project
Indian Child Welfare Act
Infertility
International Adoptions
Matching
Minimum Standards
Nature-Nurture Studies
Orphan Trains
Outcome Studies
Placing-Out
Proxy Adoptions
Psychopathology Studies
Search and Reunion
Shared Fate: A Theory of Adoption and Mental Health, 1964
Single Parent Adoptions
Social Work
Special Needs Adoptions
Telling
Transracial Adoptions
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