Key Principles

Openness and Honesty in Adoption [more]
Child-Centred Legislation and Practice [more]
Pre-adoption and Post-adoption resourcing [more]

News [more]

Education [more]

Contacting Us

Education

Here are some links to information that will help to deepen understanding of the key principles of adoption reform.

Openness and Honesty in Adoption

Ethical adoption practices

Our body-selves in adoption: Charting responsibilities by Dr Trevor Jordan [more]

Two workshops on ethics and adoption by Dr Trevor Jordan [more]

Beyond Rights, Who Cares?: Ethical Issues in Adoption by Dr Trevor Jordan [more]

Ethical Issues in Adoption: The Moral Significance of Relationships by Dr Trevor Jordan [more]

Who cares if People are Exploited by Adopiton? - Ken Watson [more]

Access to information

A comparison of access to adoption information legislation in Australia [more] NEW!

Do birthparents have a right to privacy? A US perspective [more]

The Adoptees Bill of Rights- American Adoption Congress [more]

Access to information about birth siblings - a UK perspective - Draft Standards and Practice Guidance - Adopted Adults and their Birth Siblings [more]

Child-Centred Legislation and Practice

The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption affirmed that the child's interests were paramount and that for some children adoption was a last resort. It also drew attention to the principles stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which included rights to identity and culture. 

Intercountry adoptees have voiced issues of identity and life-long needs relating to their disrupted personal and cultural identities (See, e.g. The Colour of Difference: Journeys in Transracial Adoption and Intercountry Adoptee Support Network)

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Pre-adoption and Post-adoption Resourcing

Lifelong issues in adoption

The process of relinquishment is fraught with grief and loss and adult adoptees often feel incomplete as persons. (See, Lifelong Issues in Adoption)

Examples of services which can be provided

Jigsaw Queensland www.jigsawqueensland.com

Post Adoption Support Queensland (PASQ)

The Post Adoption Resource Centre in New South Wales. (PARC) 

The Center for Family Connections in the  USA 

The Center for Family Connections motto, 'creating and cultivating connections' sums up the basic key principle of pre-adoption and post-adoption resourcing.

 After Adoption in the UK. 

Ethics and Gamete donation

Uniting Church Synod Bioethics Committee (Qld) discussion paper on gamete donation.[more]

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