Adoption of Negro Children: A Study of Five Foster Homes Which Have Been Approved as Adoptive Homes by the Society for Seamen's Children, Staten Island, New York in 1955-1959
Abstract
The practice of adoption is an old one, as old as the story of the birth of Saigon I who founded Babylonia in the twenty-eighth Century B.C. The procedure is also recorded in ancient legal codes of the Hindus and among the Japanese, adoption is recorded as early as the thirteenth century.Today, good adoption practice rests on the conviction that it is a child centered program. This was not so in ancient cultures, how- ever, when the interests and the social and psychological needs of the adopted one were subordinate to those of the adopter. Adoption was important and necessary in these early cultures to assure continuity of the male line because of religious, political, economic and military position in the case of pre-literate people such as the early natives of New Guinea and the American Indians who adopted the women and children captured in wars.
Subject Area
Ethnic studies|Social research|Social work
Recommended Citation
Myron, Dorothea W, "Adoption of Negro Children: A Study of Five Foster Homes Which Have Been Approved as Adoptive Homes by the Society for Seamen's Children, Staten Island, New York in 1955-1959" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31096990.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31096990
