Families by law :  an adoption reader / 
edited by Naomi R. Cahn and Joan Heifetz Hollinger. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  c2004. 
 - xii, 349 p. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index. 
<br/><br/>History of adoption in the United States -- Creating adoptive families : legal and psychological requirements and consequences -- Foster care and informal adoption -- Adoption and confidentiality -- Adoption with continuing contact : "open adoption" -- The frontiers of adoption -- Feminism -- Other perspectives on adoption. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0814715893 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814715907 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003018166 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adoption--Law and legislation--United States.<br/>Adoption--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF545  / .F36 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.7301/78