Factors which influence the decision of unwed mothers to keep or surrender their illegitimate children to a public adoption agency

<p>The general purpose of this study is to turn to the possibilities of a second focus of research into the adoption process, that is, to what can be learned about the natural mother.</p><p> The particular purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify the socio-economic characteristics of those women contacting a public adoption agency for the placement of their children with prospective adoptive families; (2) to identify and examine the sociological factors which appear to influence the natural mother to wither keep or surrender her child; and (3) to determine if the women contacting the agency in 1969 represent the same socio-economic characteristics as those women who contacted the agency in 1959.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year dc:date.available

1971

Author dc:creator

• Wolf, Merle Emmert

Contributors dc:contributor

• James J. McIlwrath

• Unmarried mothers California San Joaquin County
• Illegitimacy California San Joaquin County
• Adoption California San Joaquin County
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Sociology

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1740

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-2739