How Long to Read Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love

How Long Does it Take to Read Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love by Christine Ward Gailey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters, adoptees, birth parents, and agents within and across borders. Interviews with white and African-American adopters, adoption social workers, and adoption lawyers, combined with her long-term participant-observation in adoptive communities, inform her analysis of how adopters' beliefs parallel or diverge from the dominant assumptions about kinship and family. Gailey demonstrates that the ways adoptive parents speak about their children vary across hierarchies of race, class, and gender. She shows that adopters' notions about their children's backgrounds and early experiences, as well as their own "family values," influence child rearing practices. Her extensive interviews with 131 adopters reveal profoundly different practices of kinship in the United States today. Moving beyond the ideology of "blood is thicker than water," Gailey presents a new way of viewing kinship and family formation, suitable to times of rapid social and cultural change.

How long is Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love?

Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love by Christine Ward Gailey is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love aloud.

What Reading Level is Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love?

Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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