That would be very interesting !  Maybe I can find something on the  
internet.
Thanks.
Carole
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/9/2009 4:22:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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I recall  that E. Wayne Carp was writting a book two or three decades ago
on the  history of adoption in the United States, and I am pretty sure
that I  recall him saying once that adoption as we conceive of it was a
late  nineteenth- or early twentieth-century legal innovation that
created a very  different kind of formal legal (as well as personal and
family)  relationship between the person adopted and the people adopting.
It's worth  looking into the legal evolution of adoption, which may
suggest ways in  which at earlier times different kinds of in loco
parentis operated and  when it changed.

Sorry, I don't have a title for Carp's  book.

Brent Tarter
The Library of  Virginia
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