Acknowledgments
Introduction: Family Making in an Age of Uncertainty
Part 1: Regulation and Interpretation, 1900–1945
1. The Perils of Money and Sentiment (and Custom, Accident, Impulse, Intuition, Common Sense, Faith, and Bad Blood)
2. Making Adoption Governable
3. Rules for Realness
Part 2: Standardization and Naturalization, 1930–1960
4.Matching and the Mirror of Nature
5.The Measure of Other People’s Children
Part 3: Difference and Damage, 1945–1975
6.Adoption Revolutions
7. The Difference Difference Makes
8. Damaged Children, Therapeutic Lives
Epilogue: Reckoning with Risk
Notes
Index