Adoption History: Topics in Adoption History Index Page


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 (ICWA) 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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To learn more about The Adoption History Project, please contact Ellen Herman
Department of History, University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1288
(541) 346-3699
E-mail: adoption@uoregon.edu
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