Contested adoptions : research, law, policy, and practice
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Contested adoptions : research, law, policy, and practice
Arena, c1994
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Includes bibliographies (p. 203-211) and indexes
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Description
This work considers adoption made after court proceedings which have been contested by birth families or guardians. Such adoptions are growing as a percentage of all adoption orders. Key recommendations of the White Paper on adoption are included, and considered in the context of adoption practice.
Table of Contents
- Contested adoption in context
- contested adoptions and the role of the State in family matters
- contested proceedings - justice and the law
- contested adoption proceedings - a barrister's perspective
- contested adoptions - the winner taks all
- the welfare of the child in contested proceedings
- contested proceedings - what the research tells us
- uses and abuses of research findings in contested cases
- issues of attachment, separation and identity in contested adoptions
- the role of the guardian ad litem in contested adoptions
- adoptive parents and contested adoptions
- contested adoptions - the perspective of birth parents
- a view of wider family perspectives in contested adoptions
- the use of an adversarial process in contested proceedings.
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