Second, re Brent's recommendation. When writing "Missing Pieces", a how-to search for birth parents guidebook, I found Carp's work helpful in understanding the background.
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  From: Brent Tarter 
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  Subject: Re: Adoption


  Inasmuch as we seem to be talking past one another about "adoption,"
  which has both a formal legal meaning and history as well as an informal
  and longer history, permit me to recommend a recent book on this very
  topic: E. Wayne Carp, Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
  (University of Michigan Press, 2003).

  Brent Tarter
  The Library of Virginia
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