Adoption from Care / edited by Tarja Pösö, Marit Skivenes, June Thoburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thoburn, June, editor.

Skivenes, Marit, editor.

Pösö, Tarja, editor.

Series:

Research in social work (Policy Press)

Research in Social Work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption.

Children's rights.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children's rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents' rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care. From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child's best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted from care. Taking an international comparative approach to these issues, this book provides detailed information on adoption processes and shares learning from best practice and research across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all children in care for whom adoption may be the placement of choice.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introducing the field of adoption from care

Adoption from care in risk-oriented child protection systems

Adoption from care in England: learning from experience

Overcoming the Soviet legacy? Adoption from care in Estonia

Adoption of children from state care in Ireland: in whose best interests?

Adoption from care: policy and practice in the United States

Adoption from care in family service-oriented child protection systems

Adoption from care in Austria

Adoption from care in Finland: currently an uncommon alternative to foster care

Adoption from care in Germany: inconclusive policy and poorly coordinated practice

Adoption from care in Norway

Adoption from care in Spain

Human rights platform and ways of belonging

International human rights law governing national adoption from care

Creating 'family' in adoption from care

Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway

The adoptive kinship network: issues around birth family contact in adoption

Making sense of adoption from care in very different contexts

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4473-5105-3

OCLC:

1250073971