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{"title":"Law and Adoption in the UK: A Conversation with Alice Diver","authors":"Alice Diver, Emily Hipchen","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907128","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: In this conversation, Emily Hipchen speaks with Dr. Alice Diver (School of Law, QUB, N. Ireland) about some of the themes underpinning her publication, \"'Monstrous Othering': The Gothic Nature of Origin-Tracing in Law and Literature\" (November 2021). The conversation opens with a brief discussion of their own respective experiences as \"mother and baby home\" adoptees in the US and Canada in the 1960s before turning to an analysis of how the particular adoptee brand of \"fearful otherness\" is often represented—and indeed perpetuated—in certain works of \"monstrous orphan\" fiction. In respect of achieving meaningful sociolegal and cultural reforms, language is key. The debates surrounding the wording of Ireland's controversial Birth Information and Tracing Act (2022) highlighted how lingering prejudices still attach to the topic of adoption and to the need to find one's origins. Discriminatory barriers to access—and contact with genetic relatives—still exist: the use of labels matters, too, as the controversy over the use of the term \"birth mother\" within the legislation (since amended to \"mother\") also evidenced. Though mainly relevant to adoptee rights, and adoption law and policy, debates and discourse on language may also impact on other areas where losses of origins occur, such as surrogacy and international adoption.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fostering a Dark Side: The Role of Adopting-out in Contemporary Portrayals of Abandoned or Lost Children in Star Wars","authors":"Corey Abell","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907125","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: The following paper draws attention to a lesser-studied subject in Critical Adoption Studies: foster care. I argue that this lack of attentiveness towards systems of care and the experiences of fostered children mirror a societal trend in which traditional ideals of the biological family and more recent post-biological ideals in the form of adoptive practices have created an ideological construct in which foster subjectivities are seen as identity-less. That is, the two poles of \"biological family\" and \"adoptive family\" support a particular normativity centered on a nuclear family ideal which then excludes foster families/children from membership—stereotyping foster care as inherently incapable of providing children a full and meaningful life. Ultimately, this ideological system prefers adoption, presenting it as the solution to all experiences of fostered and orphaned children. And nowhere is this ideology more present than in our society's most revered cultural productions—where orphans and foster children are continuously disparaged or misrepresented. My target for analysis in this paper will be the monumental Star Wars franchise, and in particular its three main trilogies, The Skywalker Saga . I will show how its most recent trilogy (2015–2019) embodies the transition from a biocentric normativity excluding all nonbiological families, to a status quo which has normalized adoptive-family making. Alongside a traditional biological familial ideal, adoptive families are regarded as a conventional family , and are thus capable of offering otherwise down-and-out children with meaningful lives and full identities. As this new ideological structure (what I refer to below as the ideological dyad ) becomes more entrenched in our culture, little room is left for an alternative understanding for how the systemic issues associated with a system like foster care might be addressed.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907134","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser Marianne Novy (bio) Rev. of American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption GABRIELLE GLASER, Viking, 2020 343 pp. $28.00 (hardback) ISBN: 9780735224681 Gabrielle Glaser's American Baby: A Mother, A Child and the Shadow History of Adoption combines the attention to emotion of a memoir (though the memories are found by interviewing) with the big picture research of a journalist to provide a stunning indictment of the procedures of some adoption agencies and maternity homes. She focuses on a 1961 case where the forced relinquishment for adoption is particularly egregious because the birthparents planned to marry but the girl, at seventeen, was threatened by her social worker with juvenile hall if she did not sign relinquishment papers, and where the consequences of sealed records were particularly harmful because of inherited tendencies toward disease that killed the adoptee in his fifties. A science writer with a focus on reproductive issues, Glaser met David Rosenberg when they both lived in Oregon during his long search to locate his birth-parents, and was touched by his story, which included a kidney donation from a friend in the absence of biological kin. They stayed in touch. Years later, after she moved to New York, where he was born and spent much of his childhood, he told her when DNA analysis put him in contact with his still-New-York-resident birthmother, Margaret Katz. Glaser learned in her interviews about the tyranny of Margaret's mother, who signed the papers removing her daughter's legal custody and allowing little Stephen, David's birth name, to be moved to a foster home without her knowledge. While in foster care, he was moved three times before he was given to the Rosenbergs. Margaret had been under surveillance in a maternity home where she was given no information about childbirth or birth control and told to make no friends there and forget everything. The agency, Louise Wise, lied about adoptive parents to Margaret and about Margaret and her fiancé to the adoptive parents. By the time the adoption papers were signed, Margaret and her fiancé were married, but this did not return her maternal rights. Even her attempts to protect her adopted-away child by telling Louise Wise, when his grandparents were diagnosed with three forms of cancer and his birthfather with sarcoidosis and diabetes, were frustrated. She was always told not to call, eventually threatened with police intervention; the information was never passed on to her son. Margaret feared that her next son will be taken and always wondered about Stephen when she saw dark-haired little boys near his age. Glaser puts this narrative, many of its details familiar from birthmothers' memoirs, in a larger frame by her research—Stephen's file reveals that one pediatrician prescribed the addictive drug phenobarbital for sleep problems at six weeks (82)—and s","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adoption's Unfinished Business: A Roundtable Discussion","authors":"Mary Cardaras, Gabrielle Glaser, Gregory Luce, Gonda Van Steen","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907130","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This roundtable discussion in which four participants take part allows adopted persons and those with experience of adoption to reflect on the enduring nature of adoption, the writing process that tries to capture it, and the challenges that in-country as well as intercountry adoptions still present. Guiding questions are: 1) How did you come to the process of writing? What does your genre of writing entail and what does it bring to the conversation about adoption? What made this writing happen and why now? 2) How would you define the \"unfinished business\" of adoption? Does it relate to the role that access to birth and adoption records plays? Is access a matter of institutional/legal challenges and/or psychological and even medical concerns? 3) What do you see as the main similarities and differences between in-country and intercountry adoptions? How do you see the two converge or drift apart in the near future? 4) What has changed recently in the adoption discussion? What remains to be debated and fought for?","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo? by Gonda Van Steen (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907133","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo? by Gonda Van Steen Kelly Condit-Shrestha (bio) Rev. of Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo? GONDA VAN STEEN U of Michigan P, 2019. 350 pp. 18 illustrations, 1 table. $94.95 (cloth) $39.95 (paper) ISBN: 9780472131587 In this rigorous historical undertaking, Gonda Van Steen endeavors to insert, elevate, and center postwar US-Greek international adoption history into the now robust field of American adoption studies. This framing rests on the book's assertion that the overseas migration of more than three thousand Greek children into American families during the early Cold War period \"provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children\" (book cover). In line with the author's bold claim, Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece is ambitiously structured to serve as an intervention in transnational adoption history, expand the optic of what is Greek national history, and elevate family narratives and adoptee perspectives within these larger frameworks. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece is theoretically and methodologically sophisticated. Drawing from Greek and English language sources, Van Steen's history, written from a Greek national perspective, takes shape through multidisciplinary, historically grounded readings across an extensive spread of archival and lived experiences, including personal interviews and communications; institutional, family, and legal records; newspaper, alternate media, and artistic representations—in the aftermath of World War II, subsequent Greek Civil War, and as expressed through contemporary legacy. Interweaving the aforementioned source material, the monograph is organized across three parts. In Part 1, \"The Past That Has Not Passed: Memories from Another Greece,\" Van Steen utilizes the tragic story of the Argyriadis family to grapple with the politics of Greek nationalist postmemory, the violence of the state's legal deployments to create family separations, and the active institutional participation of Metera and PIKPA (Patriotic Institution for Social Welfare and Awareness) to induce adoption trauma. Part 2, [End Page 129] \"Nation of Orphans, Orphaned Nation,\" expands the book's narrative beyond Greece's early \"political\" adoptions (2) to illuminate how Cold War \"pull factors\" and transnational stakeholders—American prospective adoptive parents, private lawyers, and the competing interests of such institutions as Ahepa (Order of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association) and the ISS (International Social Service)—transformed the practice beyond the scope of PIKPA and Metera. Part 3, \"Insights from Greek Adoption Cases: There Is Power in Knowing Your Story,\" explicitly elevates the personal stories, testimonies, and experiences of Greek-born adoptees, themselves—which in turn elevates fraud and dishonesty as central b","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Critical Adoption Dialogue about the Race-Family-Nation Nexus","authors":"Sara Dorow, Allyson Stevenson, Sadaf Mirzahi","doi":"10.1353/ado.2023.a907129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2023.a907129","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Adoption & Culture 's series of anniversary articles has affirmed critical adoption studies (CAS) as a growing, diverse, and continually relevant field of inquiry. As part of this endeavor, two adoption scholars created a collaborative dialogue on what it means to \"do\" CAS from the unique but overlapping perspectives of their two distinct research projects: Dorow's sociological work on late twentieth century China-US adoption and Stevenson's historical work on mid-twentieth century Indigenous adoption in Canada. Reflecting together on their respective approaches and methodologies, they focus on the intimate politics of kinship-nation-race that animate both of these contexts of adoption, while also noting the specific questions and issues that emerge from each distinct context. The conclusion offers three questions for the ongoing work of CAS and asserts the need for more interdisciplinary and pluralistic studies across seemingly disparate cases.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"22 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135549825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Saving Innocence","authors":"Sandra Patton-Imani","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0025","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay I explore salvation narratives in abortion and adoption dialogues, including the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to highlight the complex ways such stories function to divert attention from state regulation of families in support of a white supremacist, patriarchal agenda for the nation. I argue that these stories emphasizing salvation function as a way of hiding intersections of racism, misogyny, and homophobia driving this conservative social vision. Drawing on interdisciplinary narrative analysis, I consider laws and policies as stories about how society should function. In a “color-blind” legal system race cannot be an explicit consideration, yet exploring family laws in relation to each other, in a larger context of sociopolitical meaning, helps us see the ways in which all these social narratives function together as what Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham calls the “metalanguage of race.”","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125246882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Less Abortion, More Adoption”: A Brief Discursive History of Adoption as Solution","authors":"S. Idzik","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Popular discourse around the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision framed adoption as an equivalent solution to abortion for the problem of unwanted pregnancies. Proposing adoption as a simple solution to a complex social or political problem is not new, and this article traces a lineage of such arguments, noting the ways that they marginalize both adoptees and birth families.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"31 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134223342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aren’t You Glad You Weren’t Aborted? An Open Letter from an Adoptee","authors":"Liz Debetta","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0024","url":null,"abstract":"This essay blends creative nonfiction and autoethnography to problematize the anti-choice rhetoric of adoption as a solution to abortion through the lenses of reproductive justice and adoptee lived experience.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116603478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Birthmothers on Abortion: A Roundtable Discussion with Members of Ohio Birthparent Group on the Impacts of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization","authors":"Kathy Livingston, Margaret A. Sabec, Members of Ohio Birthparent Group","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0022","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores birthmothers’ perceptions of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision and the influence of abortion politics on their experiences with pregnancy, adoption, and post-adoption support. Six birthparents, including the author, participated in roundtable discussions on Zoom to share perspectives on Dobbs. All participants are former members of Ohio Birthparent Group, a birthparent-led post-adoption support group in Ohio that was active from 2010–2018.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114614272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}