Adoption
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Letters: We need research to look at the link between increasing numbers of children in care alongside rising use of adoption. But it is already clear that policymakers should not assume that increasing adoption will reduce numbers in care
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Shortlisted for a Costa prize, The Good Guy uses fiction to explore the author’s hidden roots as a child adopted in the 60s
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Letters: The increasing use of targets in children’s services merely gives credibility to both rationing and the stratification of services
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Councils are setting benchmarks for the number of child adoptions – this practice is morally repugnant
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High court decides NHS administrator can bring up child, now six, in the UK despite objections from Egyptian authorities
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Ministers issue joint statement saying federal reform to better support children in out-of-home care has been too slow
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Letters: I assume the nuns cared for us while our mothers toiled in the laundry and, given the attitudes of the Catholic church towards our mothers, it is unlikely that we received the loving, nurturing care that we needed
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Australia is decades behind on adoption and it's time to put children’s interests first
Oliver JacquesAustralia could learn from one of Hillary Clinton’s achievements as it celebrates National Adoption Awareness Week
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From knowing that you have to wait for love to come and keeping things familiar for your child to dealing with insensitive questions
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Fall of 12% put down to local authorities misinterpreting a 2013 family court ruling that adoption should be a last resort
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I hate the smugness of family. The mindless celebrations. The unquestioned loyalty. I hate the Facebook posts
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After her father abandoned her, Mary Anna King was raised on a commune of single mothers before being given up for adoption. She tells Lawrence Donegan the extraordinary story of how she and her six siblings were finally reunited
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Fears that this bill is a gateway to privatisation are misplaced; it offers an opportunity to test ways of improving outcomes for children
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Yvette Collier takes in high-risk mums and their newborns at her home, where they learn how to parent. The stakes are high – sometimes the baby is taken away, sometimes the mother walks away …
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