Adoption Request Rejections: An Analysis of Ninety-Three Rejected Applications of Prospective Adoptive Parents at the New York Foundling Hospital, January 1, 1956 to December 31, 1956, With Emphasis on Six Cases
Abstract
Background of the Study. The standards and procedures of adoption and the principles, values, and assumptions underlying adoption practice as they are known today have evolved within the twentieth century, particularly during the last three decades. Despite this fact, the practice of adoption is known to have been a common practice among the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. At that time, the factors that motivated adoption practice were cruelly selfish. The primary purpose of adoption was to provide an heir to a family without naturally born successors in order that familiar prestige and tradition might be carried on to another generation. Adoption and similar laws pertaining to the assimilation of children into a family, other than through biological or kinship factors, are known to have existed and been codified by Hammurabi (circa 2250 B.C.). The aspects of that code of law which pertained to children, were cruelly selfish and one sided.
Subject Area
Developmental psychology|Law|Social work
Recommended Citation
McNally, James R, "Adoption Request Rejections: An Analysis of Ninety-Three Rejected Applications of Prospective Adoptive Parents at the New York Foundling Hospital, January 1, 1956 to December 31, 1956, With Emphasis on Six Cases" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557624.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557624
