Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Jean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption / E. Wayne Carp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 403 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472029907
  • 0472029908
  • 1306463521
  • 9781306463522
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoptionDDC classification:
  • 362.734092 23
LOC classification:
  • HV875.P36 C38 2014eb
Other classification:
  • BIO022000 | FAM004000 | POL029000
Online resources:
Contents:
The search for identity -- The birth of a reformer -- The Life History Study Center -- On the road -- Religion and reunion -- Illegitimacy, traumatic neurosis, and the problem of affliction -- Orphan Voyage -- Orphan Voyage moves south -- The new adoption reform movement -- Organizing the movement -- Sealed adoption records -- Ombudsman -- The American Adoption Congress -- Straight ahead -- The great American tragedy.
Summary: "Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton's ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement's most vital organizations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress. Using previously unexamined sources, historian E. Wayne Carp offers the first-ever biography of Jean Paton. Beginning in 1951, Paton, a twice-adopted, middle-aged ex-social worker, dedicated her life to overcoming American society's prejudices against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Her unflagging efforts over the next five decades helped reverse social workers' harmful policy and practice concerning adoption and sealed adoption records and change lawmakers' enactment of laws prejudicial to adult adoptees and birth mothers, struggles that continue to this day"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Biograhpy Available
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The search for identity -- The birth of a reformer -- The Life History Study Center -- On the road -- Religion and reunion -- Illegitimacy, traumatic neurosis, and the problem of affliction -- Orphan Voyage -- Orphan Voyage moves south -- The new adoption reform movement -- Organizing the movement -- Sealed adoption records -- Ombudsman -- The American Adoption Congress -- Straight ahead -- The great American tragedy.

"Pioneering adoption activist Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought effectively for 50 years to reform American adoption. Paton gave adult adoptees a voice and provided them with a healthy self-image; facilitated thousands of meetings between adult adoptees and their families of origin; fought to open sealed adoption records; and indefatigably explained the adoption experience to a wider public. Paton's ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She was also instrumental in the formation of two of the movement's most vital organizations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress. Using previously unexamined sources, historian E. Wayne Carp offers the first-ever biography of Jean Paton. Beginning in 1951, Paton, a twice-adopted, middle-aged ex-social worker, dedicated her life to overcoming American society's prejudices against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Her unflagging efforts over the next five decades helped reverse social workers' harmful policy and practice concerning adoption and sealed adoption records and change lawmakers' enactment of laws prejudicial to adult adoptees and birth mothers, struggles that continue to this day"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

Master record variable field(s) change: 600

Powered by Koha