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Record Nr.

UNINA9910474054603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

©2021

Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4473-5105-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)

Collana

Research in Social Work

Disciplina

362.734

Soggetti

Adoption

Children's rights

Parent and child

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.