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"Kinship by Design is a masterful work carved out from a gigantic mountain of primary and secondary sources. I am confident that it will take its place as the best-researched and most original book on the history of American adoption published to date." - E. Wayne Carp, author of Family Matters"
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"Herman limns the shifting paradigms of kinship with thorough research, careful analysis, and incisive prose. . . . Deeply thoughtful and beautifully wrought, Kinship by Design is a history animated by ethical and existential concerns." (Barbara Melosh Women's Review of Books )
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