....I recall that E. Wayne Carp was writting a book two or three decades ago
on the history of adoption in the United States,...
A possible reference from Google Books:
E. Wayne Carp, editor, Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. iv + 257 pp.
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