Description: INFORMAL ADOPTION in BLACK FAMILIES in LOWNDES and WILCOX COUNTIES, ALABAMA. By Lewis W. Jones, Director, Tuskegee Institute Center for Rural Development. Published by the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, under a Grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1975. Printed paper covers, side stapled with black cloth tape covering the spine and staples, 8.5x11 inches, 51 pages, pages printed on one side only. GOOD condition, a few small, light stains, a couple corner creases, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. From the Introduction: "In 1972, forty-eight black children were legally adopted in Alabama. This number by no means accounts for black children who were taken into substitute families. This rearing of children in a substitute family without observance of the prescribed legalities we designate "informal adoption"...It is, of course, difficult to know precisely how many children in what areas are being brought up, and by whom, under such conditions, but there can be no doubt that the number is considerable, in the tens of thousands...It is unlikely that many of the adults and children who have entered into such arrangements are aware of their legal responsibilities and rights...The problem this research considers is that of illuminating the legal, social and cultural contexts in which informal adoption of black children takes place in the rural South..."
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: Alabama
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Lewis W. Jones
Region: North America
Publisher: Tuskegeen Institute
Topic: Black Children, Adoption, African-American, The South, Sociology
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Sociology, African-American Children, Adoption, Alabama
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1975
