Adoption of the Older Child: A Study of Seven Older Children Known to State Charities Aid-Child Adoption Service of New York State in 1957-1958, Whose Adoptions or Adoptive Placements Have Been Impeded Due to Certain Legal and Social Factors
Abstract
The practice of adoption, In some form or another, has been in existence for centuries. It is known that among pre-literate and primitive peoples there were recognized practices which were equivalent to legal adoptions. Actually, many primitive people were quite used to raising orphaned children. For instance, certain of the tribes of American Indians adopted children and also women and children captured in war. Often political assimilation was achieved by the adoption of an entire tribe. In some Indian tribes relatives often adopted the children of members of their family, and in Melanesia and certain other islands babies are adopted before birth.
Subject Area
Public administration|Individual & family studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Morrow, Jean Rowena, "Adoption of the Older Child: A Study of Seven Older Children Known to State Charities Aid-Child Adoption Service of New York State in 1957-1958, Whose Adoptions or Adoptive Placements Have Been Impeded Due to Certain Legal and Social Factors" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557754.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557754
