A Child for Keeps? considers the background to the growth in popularity of adoption in Britain in the early twentieth century and analyzes the campaign for adoption legislation. It discusses the wholesale growth of unregulated adoption after the first law was passed and the gradual pressure for safeguards and secrecy in adoption.
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'In writing the first monograph on the history of adoption in England, Keating has opened up a significant new aspect of our understanding of family life in the 20th century for further research' - Reviews in History
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JENNY KEATING has degrees from Sussex University, UK, and Monash University, Australia. She has been a museum curator, teacher, advice worker and journalist, and while living in Australia, worked as a commissioned historian. Since returning to the UK, she has completed a DPhil and is currently researching the history of history-teaching in schools.
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A man came a little while ago to us and said he and his wife wanted to adopt a child and had we one for adoption? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voluntary sector, nursing committee, adoption register, legalised adoption, legalising adoption, adoption societies, adoption society, relinquishing parent, arranging adoptions, relinquishing mothers, baby farming, adoption order, adoption legislation, adopting parents, adoption work, voluntary homes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Andrew, Home Office, Home Secretary, Hopkinson Committee, First World War, Ministry of Health, High Court, Children Act, Princess Alice, Second World War, National Children Adoption Association, Tower Cressy, Tomlin Committee, Setting the Scene, National Adoption Society, Adoption Act, County Courts, Legislation Takes Shape, The Times, United Kingdom, Poor Law, Later Developments, Sir Thomas Inskip, Second Reading, House of Lords Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
A man came a little while ago to us and said he and his wife wanted to adopt a child and had we one for adoption? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
voluntary sector, nursing committee, adoption register, legalised adoption, legalising adoption, adoption societies, adoption society, relinquishing parent, arranging adoptions, relinquishing mothers, baby farming, adoption order, adoption legislation, adopting parents, adoption work, voluntary homes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Andrew, Home Office, Home Secretary, Hopkinson Committee, First World War, Ministry of Health, High Court, Children Act, Princess Alice, Second World War, National Children Adoption Association, Tower Cressy, Tomlin Committee, Setting the Scene, National Adoption Society, Adoption Act, County Courts, Legislation Takes Shape, The Times, United Kingdom, Poor Law, Later Developments, Sir Thomas Inskip, Second Reading, House of Lords Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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