Adoption from Care

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.

Tarja Pösö is Professor of Social Work at Tampere University. Marit Skivenes is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, at the University of Bergen June Thoburn is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia.

Introducing the field of adoption from care ~ Tarja Pösö, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn Part I: Adoption from care in risk-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in England: learning from experience ~ June Thoburn Overcoming the Soviet legacy? Adoption from care in Estonia ~ Katre Luhamaa and Judit Strömpl Adoption of children from state care in Ireland: in whose best interests? ~ Kenneth Burns and Simone McCaughren Adoption from care: policy and practice in the United States ~ Jill Duerr Berrick Part II: Adoption from care in family service-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in Austria ~ Jenny Krutzinna and Katrin Kriz Adoption from care in Finland: currently an uncommon alternative to foster care ~ Pia Eriksson and Tarja Pösö Adoption from care in Germany: inconclusive policy and poorly coordinated practice ~ Thomas Meysen and Ina Bovenschen Adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Marit Skivenes Adoption from care in Spain ~ Sagrario Segado, Ana Cristina Gomez Aparicio and Esther Abad Guerra Part III: Human rights platform and ways of belonging International human rights law governing national adoption from care ~ Katre Luhamaa and Conor O'Mahony Creating 'family' in adoption from care ~ Jenny Krutzinna Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Sveinung Hellesen Nygård The adoptive kinship network: issues around birth family contact in adoption ~ June Thoburn Making sense of adoption from care in very different contexts ~ Tarja Pösö, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn