Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

xii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.

The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.