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Adoption Act-1994!
Overview / About
Needs for this Law:
Negatives / Cons:
Overview / About
- An Act to make provision for the adoption of persons and for the parties to adoptions and their relatives to have access to information about the parties, to repeal the Adoption of Children Act 1986, and for related purposes.
Needs for this Law:
- This Law was made because some considerations had to be taken into account, these include...
- the welfare and best interests of a child who is an adoptee or a prospective adoptee;
- the principle that adoption is a service for a child who is an adoptee or a prospective adoptee; and
- the adoption of a child should occur only in circumstances where there is no other appropriate alternative for the child.
- It’s acknowledged that adoption is not part of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island culture.
- Therefore the adoption of a child who is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander should only occur in circumstances where there is no other appropriate alternative for that child.
- Open adoption means that the 3 main parties to an adoption (the child, the birth parents and adoptive parents) are aware of each other’s identity.
Negatives / Cons:
- This position rests on the assumption that people in our society maintain negative views of adopted children because adoption is the result of parents losing their parental rights either voluntarily or involuntarily.