A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 by Keating, J.

A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230517882)

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Format: Hardcover
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A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 by Keating, J.

A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45

$129.99
A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 by Keating, J.

A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918-45

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: J. Keating
ISBN-10: 0230517889
ISBN-13: 9780230517882
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2008
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By J. Keating
By J. Keating
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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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