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Adoption

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• Foster home care
• Parent and child

• Adoption -- Australia
• Adoption -- China
• Adoption -- Corrupt practices
• Adoption -- Fiction
• Adoption -- Juvenile fiction
• Adoption -- Law and legislation
• Adoption -- Massachusetts
• Adoption -- Oceania
• Adoption -- United States
• Adoptees
• Intercountry adoption
• Interracial adoption
• Wrongful adoption

• Child placing

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1990), by Ann Beth Waltner (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)

• Life Blood (c2000), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• Falkner: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • all volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Falkner: A Novel (New York: Harper and Bros., 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Triangle's End: A Novelette (New York: Exposition Press, c1954), by William H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Opportunities: A Sequel to "What She Could" (London J. Nisbet and Co., 1871), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Opportunities: A Sequel to "What She Could" (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1871), by Susan Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (aka the Hague Convention; 1993) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hddh.net)
• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• The Selection of Foster Homes for Children: Principles and Methods Followed by the Boston Children's Aid Society, With Illustrative Cases (Studies in Social Work monographs in child welfare #1; New York: New York School of Social Work, 1919), by Mary S. Doran and Bertha Capen Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transactions in Kinship: Adoption and Fosterage in Oceania (ASAO Monograph #4; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1976), ed. by Ivan A. Brady (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Kinship With Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Judith Schachter (HTML at UC Press)

• A Nation's Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, c2024), by Tracey Owens Patton (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and its Developments (Adelaide: Vardon and Sons, 1907), by Catherine Helen Spence (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• The Selection of Foster Homes for Children: Principles and Methods Followed by the Boston Children's Aid Society, With Illustrative Cases (Studies in Social Work monographs in child welfare #1; New York: New York School of Social Work, 1919), by Mary S. Doran and Bertha Capen Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pogo Primer for Parents (TV Division) (Washington: Children's Bureau, 1961), by Walt Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parental Influence, Authority, and Instruction: Their Power and Importance, by William Bacon (page images at MOA)
• "Will They Fly a Plane Into Our House?" How to Talk to Children About Terrorism (Norwalk, CT: Play2Grow; Plainview, NY: Childswork/Childsplay, c2001), by Lawrence E. Shapiro (PDF at lookstein.org)
• The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
• The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Confident Children and How They Grow, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• The Century of the Child (New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1909), by Ellen Key, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Children Trap: The Biblical Blueprint for Education (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Robert L. Thoburn (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances Which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of Society (third edition; London: Printed for J. Murray, 1781), by John Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (fourth edition, corrected; Edinburgh: Printed for W. Blackwood and Longman, Huest, Rees, and Orme, 1806), by John Millar (text at McMaster)

• Mothers and Other Monsters (2005), by Maureen F. McHugh (multiple formats with commentary at Small Beer Press)
• Fledgling (2009), by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• The Prodigal Parents (1938), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Cast Adrift, by T. S. Arthur (Gutenberg text)
• Cast Adrift (Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart and Co., c1872), by T. S. Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• Homeland (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946), by Georges Surdez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Way of All Flesh (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps and R. A. Streatfeild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Laws Respecting Women, as They Regard Their Natural Rights or Their Connections and Conduct: In Which Their Interests and Duties as Daughters, Wards, Heiresses, Spinsters, Sisters, Wives, Widows, Mothers, Legatees, Executrixes, etc., are Ascertained and Enumerated; Also, the Obligations of Parent and Child, and the Condition of Minors (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Friends, Good Friends? (Elgin, IL: Chariot Books, c1992), by Josh McDowell and Dottie McDowell, illust. by Kathy Kulin-Sandel (PDF at josh.org)
• Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children (Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Co., 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Henry Sandham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children (Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Co., 1898), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Henry Sandham (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Cherry Tree (London et al.: Pickering and Inglis, ca. 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Florence Arnott: or, Is She Generous? (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1856), by Maria J. McIntosh (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Puzzling Pair (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1898), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Eveline Lance
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Settlers: A Tale of Virginia, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., c1904), by Beatrix Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (New York: F. Warne and Co., c1904), by Beatrix Potter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tattine, by Ruth Ogden (Gutenberg text)
• Tattine (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: E. Nister, ca. 1898), by Ruth Ogden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Worlds Not Realized" (London: Bell and Daldy, 1856), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.