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E-book Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care : An Australian Contribution to an International Debate

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Adoption entails the permanent transfer of legal rights and responsibili-ties for a child from birth parents to adoptive parents. Inevitably, such a procedure can be controversial, for adoption has a profound and perma-nent impact on the lives of all the parties involved—the child, the birth parents and the adoptive parents, as well as grandparents, siblings and other relations on both sides. It also raises numerous ethical and philo-sophical questions concerning the appropriate role of the state within the family; the balance between parents’ and children’s rights; and the cir-cumstances under which the blood tie can, or cannot, be broken.However much an adoption may be in the best interests of a child, it will also entail feelings of grief: for birth parents, who mourn the loss of a child; for children who may lose contact not only with birth parents, but also with siblings and grandparents who were important to them; and sometimes for adoptive parents, especially if it reignites unresolved emotions concerning infertility (Neil, 2013; Thomas, 2013). It is there-fore not surprising that the adoption debate engenders strong feelings and these can be exacerbated by media campaigns from individuals and pressure groups, supporting one or other side of the adoption triangle (see Albert, 2016; P., 2016).Moreover, a series of scandals inform and colour the debate. There is no doubt that in many countries, adoption has been used to perpetrate gross and systematic injustices. In Spain in the 1940s (Richards, 2005) and Argentina in the 1970s (Lazzara, 2013), thousands of infants were removed from dissenting birth mothers and placed for adoption with loyalists as a means of punishing and quashing opposition to the regime. Adoption has also been used as a means of eradicating a culture or race that is perceived as alien: policies designed to eliminate Aboriginal cul-ture in Australia through the forcible removal and adoption of the Stolen Generations have been widely publicised (Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, 1997). In Switzerland, over a similar period, several hundred Yenish children were removed for a similar reason (Meier, 2008), and during the Second World War, thousands of Polish children were also separated from birth parents and placed for adoption with Aryan families for this purpose (Nicholas, 2005). Adoption has also been used as a means of enforcing conformity to a social norm. Until the end of the twentieth century, in many countries, illegitimate children and their mothers were deliberately stigmatised, both by the law and by social conventions that ostracised those who engaged in extra-marital sexual relations and thereby undermined the sanctity of holy matrimony, for marriage was seen as essential to the stability of the family and, by extension, to the wider society. It was difficult for a single mother to earn enough to keep her child, or to live on state benefits if they were available, and many of those who had insufficient support from their wider families voluntarily relinquished their babies for adoption.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 WAR o

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London : Springer Nature., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

340 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030764296

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301

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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