Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Rep... - 9780367367411

Taylor & Francis

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproduction TechnologyStrangers as Kin\nAuthor(s): Prophecy Coles\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367367411, 978-0367367411\nSynopsis\nIn this book, Prophecy Coles traces the existential history of the unwanted child with particular attention to the illegitimate child, linking myth, literature and clinical practice in the historical and legal context of adoption.\n\nFrom the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century until the early twentieth century the lives of such children were short-lived. The Adoption Act of 1926 did much to change the moral climate and the fate of the illegitimate child. It provided the child with a legal family and a name. There follows some unexpected difficulties that emerged after World War Two. Adopted children did not necessarily thrive, and young mothers who had been forced to give up a child born out of wedlock revea.