"In the best interests of the child": mapping the (re) emergence of pro-adoption politics in contemporary Australia.(Essay): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
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From the author: This article seeks to understand, in historical and international perspective, recent governmental initiatives that aim to reinstate adoption as a viable policy option for the care and placement of children in Australia, with reference to two recent reports of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Human and Family Services, Overseas Adoption in Australia: Report of the Inquiry into Adoption of Children from Overseas (2005), and The Winnable War on Drugs: The Impact of Illicit Drug Use on Families (2007) which raises adoption as a policy option for children of drug-addicted parents. These reports appear to signal a discursive shift away from the anti-adoption attitudes that have characterised the post-1970s period in response to the Stolen Generations and other past adoption practices. It is argued that this change can be understood as having been pushed to the fore by the conservative family policy of the Howard era and further fostered by international trends in adoption policy.
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Title: "In the best interests of the child": mapping the (re) emergence of pro-adoption politics in contemporary Australia.(Essay)
Author: Kate Murphy
Publication:The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 55 Issue: 2 Page: 201(18)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: This article seeks to understand, in historical and international perspective, recent governmental initiatives that aim to reinstate adoption as a viable policy option for the care and placement of children in Australia, with reference to two recent reports of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Human and Family Services, Overseas Adoption in Australia: Report of the Inquiry into Adoption of Children from Overseas (2005), and The Winnable War on Drugs: The Impact of Illicit Drug Use on Families (2007) which raises adoption as a policy option for children of drug-addicted parents. These reports appear to signal a discursive shift away from the anti-adoption attitudes that have characterised the post-1970s period in response to the Stolen Generations and other past adoption practices. It is argued that this change can be understood as having been pushed to the fore by the conservative family policy of the Howard era and further fostered by international trends in adoption policy.
Citation Details
Title: "In the best interests of the child": mapping the (re) emergence of pro-adoption politics in contemporary Australia.(Essay)
Author: Kate Murphy
Publication:The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 55 Issue: 2 Page: 201(18)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
