Download or read book Family Matters written by E. Wayne Carp and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Matters cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.
Download or read book Disclosure of Adoption Records written by Bonnie E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shameless written by Marilyn Churley and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son. Both a personal and political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother’s struggle with loss, love, secrets, and lies – and an adoption system shrouded in shame.
Download or read book Unlocking the Adoption Files written by Paul Sachdev and published by Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results, conclusions, and policy recommendations from his three-year Canadian study of the four groups involved in the adoption experience--adoptees, birthparents, adoptive parents, and adoption agency personnel. Explores the attitudes of all parties involved in adoption, toward liberalizing the current policy of secrecy.
Download or read book The Sealed Adoption Record Controversy written by Mary Ann Jones and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fact Sheet on Adoption Information Disclosure Updated written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontario Bill 183, the Adoption Information Disclosure Act(if passed), will generally provide adopted persons & birth parents with a right of access to each other's personally identifying information contained in adoption-related records. This fact sheet responds to concerns expressed by various parties potentially affected by the Bill and is intended to address these issues, clarify certain misconceptions, and update research undertaken on the issue by the Information & Privacy Commissioner. Issues discussed include whether privacy & confidentiality of information were explicitly promised to adopters & adoptees, whether confidentiality of adoption records is guaranteed in law, the type of information disclosed on adoption orders, the accessibility of anonymized medical information, whether there is an absolute right of access to adoption-related information, the scope of the Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act as it relates to adoption records, the limitations of contact vetoes, and the inadequacy of existing research on adoption disclosure.
Download or read book Adoption and Disclosure written by Madelyn DeWoody and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Release of Information from Adoption Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Release of Information from Michigan Adoption Records written by Michigan. Office of Children and Youth Services and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Task Force on Confidentiality in the Adoption Program written by California. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wrongful Adoption written by Madelyn Freundlich and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen an increase in cases where adoptive parents fail to receive accurate or complete information about a child's physical, emotional, or developmental problems or about the child's birth family and history. In these cases adoptive parents are confronted with extremely expensive medical care or mental health care. This monograph examines the issue of wrongful adoption. Chapter 1 reviews the historical and social context of adoption practice in relation to disclosure of children's health and other background information to prospective adoptive parents. This section also outlines the benefits of disclosure to all parties to an adoption, and discusses the factors that may be related to failure to disclose. Chapter 2 discusses specific cases that have shaped the tort of "wrongful adoption," applies wrongful adoption theory to international adoption, and discusses state statutes that set forth disclosure obligations. Chapter 3 discusses some of the key policy and practice issues that warrant close consideration in relation to disclosure of health and other background information. Chapter 4 provides recommendations to enhance adoption agencies' abilities to implement quality practice in the area of disclosure of health and other background information and to limit exposure to liability for wrongful adoption. Contains 62 references. (KB)
Download or read book Release of Information from Michigan s Adoption Records written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin s Adoption Records Law Chapter 359 Laws of 1981 written by Susan Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Family of Adoption written by Joyce Maguire Pavao and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption therapist to explain to adoptive parents, birthparents, adult adopted people, and extended family, as well as to those who work with children professionally the developmental stages and challenges one can expect in the life of the adopted person. The Family of Adoption is truly the most insightful and healing book on the adoption shelf.
Download or read book Adoption the Issue of Bonding in the Adoption of Newborn Infants written by Winnipeg. Community Task Force on Maternal and Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of Sight Out of Mind But Not Out of Duty written by Wanda Temm and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the role of a child welfare agency is multi-faceted. An agency often provides adoption services, unwed parent services, and foster care services. As a result, agencies struggle to meet the often conflicting needs of three separate clients: the child, the adoptive parents, and the birth parents. Each part of the adoption triangle presents its own unique problems. From the child needing placement in a permanent family to the adoptive parents wanting a child, to the birth parents not ready or not willing to become parents, an agency works to meet all needs. In doing so, the agency often takes on the role of intermediary, serving to place the child of the birth parents with adoptive parents. As an intermediary, one role of the agency is as an information conduit. The birth parents relay information about their medical history, family background, and reasons for relinquishment. In turn, the agency passes non-identifying information on to the adoptive parents. As an adult, the child may return to the agency and receive this non-identifying information for him. In modern adoptions, the birth parents also may receive information about the adoptive parents and the child. Indeed, post-placement information sharing is often heralded by agencies in their marketing efforts to recruit adoptable babies. The law fully recognizes an agency's legal duty to disclose information to the child and adoptive parents. State statutes dictate what information must be shared. Indeed, adoptive parents may recover damages against an agency for failure to disclose pertinent medical or social history information. The law, however, inadequately protects birth parents. While some states have recognized the need for disclosure of medical information, the vast majority do not. Medical information regarding the adopted child can be just as crucial to birth parents, however, in their later reproductive decisionmaking. Knowledge that an earlier child had a genetic illness may impact a birth parent's decision to have additional children, to undergo genetic counseling, and to undergo extensive prenatal testing. Birth parents seeking damages for an agency's failure to disclose medical information regarding the adopted child received post-adoption have, however, been turned away for lack of duty. This essay will examine whether an agency owes a duty to birth parents to disclose information received post-placement. First, this essay will consider the changing practices of modern adoption and their potential ramifications for agency duties. Second, it will examine the birth parents' need for information and the nature of an agency's duty. Last, this essay will consider four theories under which a duty to disclose to birth parents could be established. This essay will conclude that changed adoption agency practices result in an agency's acquired duty to disclose medical information received to birth parents. As a result, agencies may be held liable for failure to disclose information received to birth parents.
Download or read book Disclosure of Adoption Information written by Ontario. Commission to Review the Matter of Disclosure of Adoption Information and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
