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From:Community Care (Issue 22)An independent adoption support service in Somerset has opened * knowledge zone References and Further reading: 1 Adoption Agency regulations 2005 2 Adoption National Minimum Standards acents Adoption...
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From:Community CareNew adoption regulations put the onus on councils to provide "warts and all" background details of children to prospective adopters. But will this mean a much reduced pool of people willing to adopt? Anabel Unity Sale...
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From:Child Welfare (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn-depth interviews with 500 adoptive families who received postadoption services through Virginia's Adoptive Family Preservation (AFP) program paint a richly detailed picture of the challenges adoptive families face...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhile there is a general international trend towards more open adoption, there is considerable variation between agencies in the extent to which they are prepared to support different forms of contact arrangements. This...
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From:Pediatric News (Vol. 39, Issue 9)When people think about adoption, they often envision a childless couple adopting an American baby unrelated to them but of the same race, with the hope of offering a better life to the child of an unwed mother. While...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 26) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article reports original research conducted with 20 adoptees, adopted under closed-stranger protocols, who have been experiencing regular post-reunion contact with their birth families for more than 10...
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From:Child Welfare (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 and the Interethnic Adoption Provisions of 1996 (MEPA-IEP) require states to develop plans that "provide for the diligent recruitment of potential foster and adoptive families that...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe internet has changed the way goods and services are now provided. Internet-based adoption services are currently flourishing, with varying degrees of regulation, depending on whether it is domestic infant adoption,...
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From:Community CareThe case of a mother who has been thwarted in her attempts to warn her adopted child that he may have a fatal hereditary disease has brought a demand for a change in the law. Baaf Adoption and Fostering chief...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJulia Feast discusses BAAF's role in securing the right of adopted people to have access to information about their origins and how perceptions regarding this right have changed over time Introduction In the UK...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA study of the views of two groups of 11-year-old adopted children (one adopted as babies within the UK, n = 47, the other adopted from Romania, aged between two and 43 months, n = 133) indicates that parents...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedReference from Dumbarton Sheriff Court in S Petrs v L Court of Session, Edinburgh First Division of the Inner House: Lord President (Hamilton), Lady Paton and Lord Kingarth 21 June 2011 [2011] CSIH 38 This...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRoy Parker considers key developments in services for children separated from their birth families in England and Wales over the last 30 years. Introduction and a little background In the year that BAAF was...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedT & M v OCC & C High Court Family Division (Hedley J) 13 May 2010 [2010] EWHCA 964 T and M are a lesbian couple who lived for a time in Nicaragua. While there they adopted two children, J and C, but as the law...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed28:2, pp 113-32, February 2006, USA Humphrey et al focus on participants' perspectives on (a) ways that the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) affected access to services for children with emotional or behavioural...
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From:Child Welfare (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn November 2002, Chief Judge Judith Kaye attended the National Adoption Day festivities in Albany County and New York County (Manhattan). Although pleased that 600 adoptions were being finalized statewide on this...
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From:Community Care (Issue 439)(NB PIC: GENERIC PIC OF ADOPTIVE FAMILY- PIC CAP- SOME CHILDREN SPENT TIME WITH ADOPTIVE FAMILIES BEFORE A DECISION WAS REVERSED) At least 340 children in care have adoption plans fall through, leaving them in limbo,...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the matter of H (Children) Court of Appeal (Wall LJ & Thorpe LJ) 24 November 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1293 Mr F and Ms H were the parents of two boys, B and R, aged four and three. Care and placement orders had...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJournal of Social Welfare Law 29:3/4, 2007, pp 199-215 This article draws on findings from a small pilot study seeking an early indication, from the social worker perspective, of the impact of the Adoption and...
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From:Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDeborah Cullen writes: Consultation on openness in the Family Court (England and Wales) The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has published a consultation paper (1) on proposals to allow the press to...