TY - BOOK ID - 77904368 TI - Little strangers PY - 2003 SN - 1282072064 9786612072062 0253105579 0253109809 9780253109804 9780253105578 9781282072060 0203109809 0253342244 9780253342249 6612072067 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Adoption in literature. KW - Orphans KW - Adoption KW - Orphans and orphan-asylums KW - Children KW - Child placing KW - Foster home care KW - Parent and child KW - History. KW - Orphaned children UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904368 AB - When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues ER -