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- Title
INTERRUPTED RELATIONS: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth-Century British Columbia.
- Abstract
The history of adoption in British Columbia (BC) supplies one part of the complicated story of interrupted relations. This article takes up the issue of such negotiations in two main parts. In the first, it reviews the efforts of the BC state to determine the adoption of Canadian children over the course of the twentieth century. In particular, it outlines critical options and constraints confronting biological kin. The second section considers how birth parents, families, communities, and adoptees themselves have tried to negotiate the terms by which children have been exchanged.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; ADOPTION; FOSTER home care; PARENT-child relationships; CHILD care services; CHILD welfare
- Publication
BC Studies, 2004, Issue 144, p5
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article