Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
by
Karen Balcom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces....