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With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity,
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equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families. In this updated edition, Pertman reveals how changing attitudes and laws are transforming adoption, and thereby American society in the twenty-first century. Selected Reading Questionnaire. Show Less
Publication
Basic Books (2001), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages