If you go to google books, advance, and google Wayne Carp 7 books come up.
Several are on adoption but none older than 2000.
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Carole D. Bryant <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> That would be very interesting !  Maybe I can find something on the
> internet.
> Thanks.
> Carole
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> 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
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