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03155aam a2200397 a 4500 001 D1A2B84E6A8C11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 110322s2011 oncabcf b 001 0deng 020 $a 0802096131 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780802096135 (pbk.) 020 $a 0802099181 (bound) 020 $a 9780802099181 (bound) 035 $a (OCoLC)693814318 040 $a NLC $b eng $c NLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d MIX $d LHU $d VP@ $d BDX $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 045 0 $a x3x7 100 1 $a Balcom, Karen Andrea, $d 1965- 245 14 $a The traffic in babies : $b cross-border adoption and baby-selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 / $c Karen A. Balcom. 260 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c c2011. 300 $a xii, 356 p., [8] p. of plates : $b ill., maps, ports. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in gender and history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Babies Across Borders -- Charlotte Whitton and Border-Crossings in the 1930s -- Border-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945-1947 -- The Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947-1949 -- Cross-Border Placements for Catholic Children From Quebec, 1945-1960 -- Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954-1964 -- Controlling Cross Border Adoption, 1950-1972 -- Conclusion: A "No Man's Land" of Jurisdiction 520 $a "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. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders - with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors - to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border. 520 $a Karen A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions - from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States."--pub. desc. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $z Canada $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $z Canada $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $x Corrupt practices $z Canada. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $x Law and legislation $z Canada. 830 0 $a Studies in gender and history. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825093735.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1A2B84E6A8C11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search