Karen Balcom

The Traffic in Babies (eBook, PDF)

Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents

BalcomKaren:

Karen A. Balcom is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442621145
• Artikelnr.: 48945332

Autorenporträt

Karen A. Balcom is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Babies Across Borders 1. Charlotte Whitton and Border
Crossings in the 1930s 2. Border
Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945
1947 3. The Alberta Babies
for
Export Scandal, 1947
1949 4. Cross
Border Placements for Catholic Children From Quebec, 1945
1960 5. Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954
1964 6. Controlling Cross Border Adoption, 1950
1972 Conclusion: A "No Man's Land" of Jurisdiction Bibliography