Parenting, citizenship and belonging in Dutch adoption debates 1900-1995

Schrover, Marlou

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2020.1757252

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“…There are also concerns that adoptees may be subject to abuse in adoptive homes; that decisions to pursue adoption may not be focused on children's best interests; and that adoption may simply be a means of transferring and privatising the costs of out-of-home care, particularly when post-adoption support services are inaccessible or insufficient (Australian Federal Parliament House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, 2018;Cashmore, 2000). Similar concerns are also found in countries such as the UK and the USA, where adoption is well established as an integral part of the child protection system (DelBalzo, 2007;Ward and Smeeton, 2017), and in other countries where it is less common (Schrover, 2020). Such concerns must be acknowledged.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice

Ward

Moggach²,

Tregeagle³

et al. 2021

Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care

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The book focuses on a study of 210 children in out-of-home care in Australia who were adopted over a 30-year period; 93 were traced for an average of 18 years after placement. The requirement for regular face-to-face contact with birth parents was considered beneficial by 69% of participants. Other findings show the adoptees’ extreme vulnerability, improved stability post adoption and the importance of adoptive parents’ commitment in facilitating positive outcomes. They also imply that child protection policy should focus on strengthening family support and more timely decision-making when parents cannot overcome their difficulties. Policy for children in long-term foster care should focus on reducing instability, increasing the quality of care and providing better care leaving support. Internationally, adoption policy needs to reflect the increased similarities between adoption and fostering engendered by open adoption from care, and acknowledge their implications for recruitment, training, contact arrangements and post-adoption support.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice

Ward

Moggach²,

Tregeagle³

et al. 2021

Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care

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“…From the second half of the 1970s onward, we observe a rapid decline in the number of domestic adoptions, most probably caused by a mix of factors: the easy availability of reliable birth control (for unmarried women, the pill was only available on medical grounds until the early 1970s), more use of single-parent financial funds (1965 General Assistance Law) and changing views on pre-nuptial sexuality, marriage and single parenthood in general, and in specific less stigmatisation of unmarried motherhood. Also, domestic adoptions were replaced by intercountry adoption from countries such as Korea (Schrover, 2020). At the same time, some Dutch adoption parents preferred a child that could be adopted unrecognizable.…”

Section: Toward Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hostages of time

Walhout¹,

Dane²,

Hilevych³

et al. 2022

Annales De Démographie Historique

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Parallèlement au baby boom , la période qui a suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale correspond à un autre changement démographique en Europe et plus largement dans l’espace occidental, nettement moins étudié : l’ère du baby scoop , soit une augmentation des grossesses hors mariage suivi d’un accroissement du nombre d’enfants confiés à l’adoption. Cette étude explore ces changements sociaux et démographiques à la lumière du cas néerlandais où l’adoption n’est devenue légale qu’en 1956, une évolution parmi les plus tardives à cet égard à l’échelle de l’Europe occidentale ; tandis que l’avortement n’était autorisé qu’en 1984. Cette recherche embrasse deux questions : dans quel contexte légal et institutionnel les procédures d’abandon et d’adoption étaient-elles menées ? Quels étaient les vécus des femmes qui abandonnaient un enfant pour le confier à l’adoption à cette période, jusqu’à quel point leur décision était-elle influencée par une contrainte (perçue) ? Nos résultats, fondés sur des dossiers d’archives et des entretiens, ne montrent pas de signes explicites de contrainte formelle ou légale. Cependant, étant donné la nature des données dont nous disposons, une telle affirmation doit être avancée avec précaution, car, même en l’absence de traces évidentes de contraintes, nos résultats ont pu mettre en lumière des formes de coercition informelle, de persuasion et de pression exercées au cours du processus décisionnel menant à l’abandon. Étant donné la nature éclatée de l’aide aux femmes confrontées à une grossesse non désirée, les chemins menant à l’abandon étaient multiples. Ces chemins mobilisaient de nombreux acteurs qui pouvaient tous, à leur échelle, influer sur la décision de la mère de naissance ; même lorsque ces acteurs agissaient en fonction des recommandations officielles.

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“…They investigate how immigration policies affect discourses, experiences and strategies of citizenship and belonging of citizens with foreign family members in different national contexts (Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom) within the European Union. We look at different family configurations: citizen women with migrant husbands (Griffiths 2019;De Hart and Besselsen 2020); and citizen families who transnationally adopt children (Schrover 2020). We investigate the interaction of citizens with foreign spouses with migration authorities (De Hart and Besselsen 2020;Block 2020) as well as their collective mobilisation in social movements (Odasso 2020).…”

Section: The Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%