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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Politics of Adoption
    sub title: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
  name:
    name part: O’Halloran, Kerry.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 334 p. online resource.
  abstract: Adoption has always had a political dimension. Its potential use to achieve political ends has been evident throughout history and in many different cultures. In Roman 1 times an emperor would adopt a successful general to continue his rule. In Ireland under the Brehon Laws the reciprocal placements of children between clans was 2 an accepted means of cementing mutual allegiances. In Japan the adoption of non-relatives was traditionally seen as a means of allying with the fortunes of 3 the ruling family. The willingness of governments to use adoption as a political strategy was apparent, for example, in Australia where it was used to further 4 the assimilation of indigenous people. It is now present in the phenomenon of intercountry adoption where the ?ow of children, particularly in the aftermath of war, is often politics by proxy and which arguably attracts the involvement of 5 some countries for reasons of economic and political expediency. Adoption does not function in isolation. It plays a distinct role within the c- text of family law proceedings. The extent to which it is available as a resource for children in the public care system or as an adjunct to marriage proceedings is essentially politically determined. It is itself susceptible to political in?uence. 6 In fact direct political leadership, exercised ?rst by President Clinton and then 1 See, Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Harrap, London 1949 at p. 30.
  table of contents: ADOPTION AND SOCIETY -- ADOPTION: CONCEPT, PRINCIPLES, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCT -- THE CHANGING FACE OF ADOPTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- ADOPTION AND THE LAW -- THE LEGAL FUNCTIONS OF ADOPTION -- INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKS FOR MODERN ADOPTION LAW -- CONTEMPORARY LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE -- THE ADOPTION PROCESS IN ENGLAND & WALES: THE ADOPTION AND CHILDREN ACT 2002 -- THE ADOPTION PROCESS IN IRELAND -- THE ADOPTION PROCESS IN THE US -- THE ADOPTION PROCESS IN AUSTRALIA -- INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION -- INTRACULTURE ADOPTION.
  note: by Kerry O’Halloran.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Public international law
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Public International Law
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Law
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  classification: K3150
  classification: 341
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402041549
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4154-3
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