Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times

Adoptionoffers a comprehensive review of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. Illustrating political and professional issues through stories and contributions from specialist practitioners, this book offers a fully rounded picture of adoption and explores myths of adoption, children and young people in care, trying to adopt, waiting for adoption, and life after adoption.

List of contributors

x

Foreword

xvii

Introduction

1

(14)

PART I Children and young people in care

15

(58)

Introduction

17

(8)

Adoption's rich tapestry unfolded: a family life in the 21st century

25

(7)

Kirsty Fergusson

Troubled children and how to place them

32

(7)

Karen Irving

Recruiting parents for hard-to-place children

39

(6)

Joanna Corbett

It can only get better, and it did!

45

(7)

Shelley Mann

Good practice in adoption

52

(5)

Felicity Collier

Kinship care: a child in the family

57

(3)

Phillip Mcgill

Attachment theory and children's rights

60

(10)

Penelope Welbourne

`I'll take her in'

70

(3)

Chris Purnell

PART II The experience of birth parents

73

(34)

Introduction

75

(7)

Audrey and Aline's story

82

(5)

Audrey

Aline Boundy

Lost and found: an adopted person's story

87

(4)

Christopher Hignett

Letter to a social worker: reflections on mothering

91

(8)

Anonymous

Adoption and family support: two means in pursuit of the same end

99

(8)

Jane Tunstill

PART III Life after adoption

107

(56)

Introduction

109

(5)

Adoption: perspectives from family members

114

(6)

Deborah Savidge

Hugh Maloney

A truer image

120

(7)

Veronica Dewan

Avoiding disruption: concurrent planning

127

(5)

Gill Gray

How post-adoption support can make adoption a success

132

(7)

Val Forrest

Talking and telling

139

(8)

Julia Feast

David Howe

Keeping in touch: a different way of looking at post-adoption contact issues

147

(11)

Pam Hodgkins

With love

158

(5)

Jane French

PART IV The politics of adoption

163

(52)

Introduction

165

(7)

The fiction of permanence

172

(7)

Adele Jones

Adoption from the inside

179

(7)

Mary Austin

Being transracially adopted: what it's really like in the UK

186

(4)

Julia Austin

From China with love

190

(7)

Angela Knight

Rejection and acceptance

197

(5)

Sheena

Donald Macrae

Adoption panels: a critique from within

202

(6)

Chris Hanvey

Adoption, race and identity

208

(7)

Anna Gupta

PART V The future of adoption

215

(42)

Introduction

217

(9)

Home news and abroad: comparing UK trends elsewhere

226

(7)

June Thoburn

Adoption services in local authorities

233

(7)

Penny Thompson

Nick Hughes

A special focus: the view from the voluntary sector

240

(6)

Terry Connor

Adoption in New Zealand: an international perspective

246

(5)

Jill Goldson

Adoption is about people: learning the lessons of experience

251

(6)

John Simmonds

Index

257

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