Full Description
Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this fascinating and timely Research Handbook provides diverse perspectives on the law and practice of adoption. It examines how adoption laws differ between countries and cultures, and the ongoing effects of adoption on the child, the birth parent(s), and the adoptive parent(s).
This Research Handbook documents the history of adoption legislation and offers comparative perspectives on the implementation of full adoption in England and Wales, in contrast to the use of simple adoption in other European countries. Chapters examine the challenges facing adoption law; from adoption without parental consent and anonymous birth, to transracial and intercountry adoption, as well as discussing the human rights of the child during and after the adoption process. Providing an abundance of global research on all aspects of the topic of adoption, Nigel Lowe and Claire Fenton-Glynn offer a comprehensive guide to the past, present, and future of adoption law.
The Research Handbook of Adoption Law will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of family law and social work, as well as human rights lawyers, legal practitioners in the field of adoption, and social workers worldwide.
Contents
Contents:
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: an overview of adoption 2
Nigel Lowe and Claire Fenton-Glynn
2 Adoption in England and Wales: a brief history 14
Jenny Keating
3 Understanding adoption: the rights approach 38
John Tobin
4 The economics of adoption 59
Margaret Brehm
PART II THE DIFFERENT FACES OF ADOPTION
5 Adoption without parental consent 80
Julie Doughty
6 Simple adoption 99
Machteld Vonk and Ian Sumner
7 Thinking about secret birth 117
Sarah Trotter
8 Adoption for step-families from 1926 to 2021 136
Judith Masson
9 A content analysis of transracial adoption in American newspapers
during 2020-21 155
Elizabeth Raleigh
PART III THE ADOPTION PROCESS
10 Fathers and the adoption process 175
Claire Fenton-Glynn and Brian Sloan
11 Gauging the child's presence and voice in adoption proceedings of
children from care in seven European countries: applying a child
equality perspective 191
Hege Stein Helland, Katrin Križ and Marit Skivenes
12 Compulsory adoption: an advocate's perspective 213
Andrew Bainham
PART IV POST ADOPTION
13 Outcomes for children adopted from care in the UK 229
Julie Selwyn
14 Post-adoption contact 249
Mandi MacDonald
15 Understanding adoption breakdown: a socio-legal perspective 270
June Thoburn
PART V COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ADOPTION
16 Adoption in Africa 287
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
17 Adoption in 'new family forms': emerging case law from the European
Court of Human Rights 307
Lydia Bracken
PART VI INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
18 The rise and fall of intercountry adoption 1995-2019 322
Peter Selman
19 The practical operation and impact of the 1993 Convention on the
Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption 347
Laura Martínez-Mora
20 Defending intercountry adoption: an ethical analysis of the best
interests of children and subsidiarity 366
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
21 The legal mandate for ending the modern era of intercountry adoption 385
David Smolin
Index
