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Report 81 (1997) - Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW)

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ABORIGINAL CHILDREN’S RESEARCH PROJECT (NSW) Draft Principal Report (March 1982)

ADCOCK, M, KANIUK, J and WHITE, R Exploring Openness in Adoption (Significant Publications, England, 1993)

AHLIJAH, F “Intercountry Adoptions: In Whose Interest?” dissertation submitted for the degree of MSc, Oxford University (1990)

AINSWORTH, M D S, BLEHAR, M, WATERS, E and WALL, S Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1978)

AMADIO, C and DEUTSCH, S “Open Adoption: Allowing Adopted Children to ‘Stay in Touch’ with Blood Relatives” (1983) 22 Journal of Family Law 59

AMATO, P Children in Australian Families: The Growth of Competence (Prentice Hall, Sydney, 1987)

ATWELL, B “Surrogacy and Adoption: A Case of Incompatibility” (1988) 20 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1

AUSTRALIA - JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON MIGRATION REGULATIONS Conditional Migrant Entry: The Health Rules (AGPS, Canberra, December 1992)

AUSTRALIA - WORKING PARTY OF THE FAMILY COURT Representing the Child’s Interests in the Family Court of Australia: Report to the Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia (September 1996)

AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL WELFARE COMMISSION Intercountry Adoption (Discussion Paper, August 1991)

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY STUDIES About Intercountry Adoption: AICAN Information Paper No 1 (May 1992)

AUSTRALIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION Aboriginal Customary Law: Child Custody, Fostering and Adoption (Research Paper 4, 1982)

AUSTRALIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws (Report 31, 1986)

AUSTRALIAN YOUTH FOUNDATION INC and NATIONAL CHILDREN’S and YOUTH LAW CENTRE Australian Children’s Charter: Draft for Consultation (The National Children’s and Youth Law Centre, Sydney, June 1995)

BAKER, R “Parentless Refugee Children: The Question of Adoption” in P Bean (ed) Adoption: Essays in Social Policy, Law, and Sociology (Tavistock, London, 1984)

BAN, P “Developments in the Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption” (1996) in 78 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 14

BAN, P “The Quest for Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption Practice” (1993) 60 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

BAN, P Report to Queensland Government on Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption (Lina TSI Corporation, Queensland, 1990)

BARNES, M “Perspectives from the Experience of Centacare Adoption Services” in Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Adoption Conference Has Adoption a Future? (Post Adoption Resource Centre, Sydney, 1995)

BASS, C “Matchmaker-Matckmaker: Older Child Adoption Failure” (1975) 54 Child Welfare 505

BAYES, H “Intercountry Adoption in Tasmania” Report of the Ministerial Review of Intercountry Adoption (April 1993)

BAYES, H “Let’s Consider the Issues” Intercountry Adoption in Tasmania (Discussion Paper, 1993)

BAYES, H “Protecting Children in Intercountry Adoption” (1993) Adoption Australia (Summer) 9

BERSTEIN, M, CALDWELL, D, BRUCE CLARK, G and ZISMAN, R “Adoption with Access or ‘Open Adoption’’’ (1992) 8 Canadian Family Law Quarterly 283

BRIDGE, C “Changing the Nature of Adoption: Law Reform in England and New Zealand” (1993) 13 Legal Studies 1

CASA NAJA, I “Adoption” paper presented at the seminar The Role and Contribution of the Muslim Family in a Multicultural Society (Islamic Council of NSW, Chullora, 19 December 1994)

CHEMA, R, FARLEY, L, OAKLEY, F H and O’BRIEN, M “Adoptive Placement of the Older Child” (1970) 49 Child Welfare 450

CHISHOLM, R “Aboriginal Children and the Placement Principle” (1988) 31 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

CHISHOLM, R “Aboriginal Children: Political Pawns or Paramount Consideration” in J Jarrah (ed) Child Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions (Social Welfare Research Centre Reports and Proceedings, No 34, July 1983)

CHISHOLM, R “End of Uniformity: New Adoption Laws for New South Wales” (1980) 5 Legal Services Bulletin 49

CHISHOLM, R Black Children: White Welfare (Social Welfare Research Centre Reports and Proceedings, No 52, April 1985)

COSIS BROWN, H “Competent Child-Focused Practice: Working with Lesbian and Gay Carers” (1991) 15 Adoption and Fostering 11

CUMMINGS, B Take This Child ... (Aborigines Studies Press, Canberra, 1990)

DALEN, M and SAETERSDAL, B “Transracial Adoption in Norway” (1987) 11 Adoption and Fostering 41

DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL and SERVICE SOCIAL INTERNATIONAL Report with Regard to the Implementation in Romania of the Hague Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Field of Intercountry Adoption (April 1991)

DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL Protecting Children’s Rights in International Adoptions: Selected Documents on the Problem of Trafficking and Sale of Children (Geneva, 1989)

EDWARDS, C and READ, P The Lost Children (Doubleday, Sydney, 1989)

EEKELAAR, J “The Emergence of Children’s Rights” (1986) 6 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 161

EEKELAAR, J “The Importance of Thinking that Children Have Rights” in P Alston, S Parker and J Seymour (eds) Children, Rights and the Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992)

ENGLAND and WALES - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELSH OFFICE Review of Adoption Law - Report to Ministers of an Interdepartmental Working Group - A Consultation Document (October 1992)

EWING, C Manufacturing Babies: What Reproductive Technologies Mean to Women (National Women’s Consultative Council, Canberra, 1993)

FISH, A and SPEIRS, C “Biological Parents Choose Adoptive Parents: The Use of Profiles in Adoption” (1990) 49 Child Welfare 129

FOPP, P “The Rights of the Child in Intercountry Adoption” paper given at the Australian Conference on Adoption in R Oxenbury (ed) Changing Families (Adelaide, May 1982)

FRATTER, J, ROWE, J, SAPSFORD, D and THOBURN, J (eds) Permanent Family Placement: A Decade of Experience (BAAF, London, 1991)

FRECKELTON, I “Clamp-Down on Baby Snatching” (1986) 60 Law Institute Journal 840

FURNHAM, A and BOCHNER, S Culture Shock: Psychological Reactions to Unfamiliar Environments (Methuen, London, 1986).

GILL, O and JACKSON, B “Transracial Adoption in Britain” (1982) 6 Adoption and Fostering 30.

GOFFMAN, E and MEAD, G Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (University of Chicago Press, 1934)

GOFFMAN, E Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Prentice-Hall, London, 1963)

GOULDING, T (ed) The Law Handbook (5th ed, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing Ltd, Sydney, 1995)

HAFEMEISTER, T “Current Legal Issues in Adoption” (1994) 18 State Court Journal 11(4)

HAMBLY, D and CHART, J “The Adoption of Children (Amendment) Act 1980” [1980] Australia Current Law 39

HAMMOND, C “BAAF and the Placement Needs of Children from Minority Ethnic Groups” (1990) 14 Adoption and Fostering 52

HARPER, J “‘A Bit of Me Will Always be Lost’ - Adoption Losses in Intercountry Adoption” in Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Adoption Conference Has Adoption a Future? (Post Adoption Resource Centre, Sydney, 1995)

HARPER, J “Intercountry Adoption of Older Children in Australia” (1986) 10 Adoption and Fostering 27

HARPER, J “Love is not Enough: Breakdown in Intercountry Adoption” paper presented at Inter-Country Adoption Workshop (NSW Committee on Adoption, Sydney, October 1985)

HARPER, P “Children in Stepfamilies: Their Legal and Family Status” Institute of Family Studies Policy Background Paper No 4 (Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1984)

HARVEY, I J “Adoption of Vietnamese Children: An Australian Study” (1983) 18 Australian Journal of Social Issues 68

HARVEY, I J “Australian Parents for Vietnamese Children: a Social-psychological Study of Inter-country Adoption in Australia” (Thesis, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, October 1980)

HARVEY, I J “Transracial Adoption in Australia” (1982) 6 Adoption and Fostering 43

HARVEY, I J, DOLGOPOL, U and CASTELL-MCGREGOR, S (eds) Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Australia (South Australian Children’s Interests Bureau, Adelaide, 1993)

HOKSBERGEN, R “Understanding and Preventing ‘Failing Adoptions’” in E Hibbs (ed) Adoption: International Perspectives (International University Press, Madison, 1991)

HORNE-ROBERTS, J “Intercountry Adoption” (1992) 142 New Law Journal 286

HUMAN RIGHTS and EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Terms of Reference, August 1995)

INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTIVE PARENTS WORKING PARTY “Aussie Kids Adopted From Overseas” video produced by the Staff Development Centre Audio-Visual Services, Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (1989)

INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION WORKING PARTY Report to the Protection and Care of Children Sub-Committee of the Health and Community Services Ministerial Council Secretariat (1995)

JAFFE, E D (ed) Intercountry Adoptions: Laws and Perspectives of “Sending” Countries (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1995)

JANU, P W “Surrogacy Arrangements in Australia: Analysis of the Legal Framework” (1995) 9 Australian Journal of Family Law 200

JESSEP, O and CHISHOLM, R “Step-Parent Adoptions and the Family Law Act” (1992) 6 Australian Journal of Family Law 179

KADUSHIN, A and SEIDL, W “Adoption Failure: a Social Work Post-mortem” (1971) 16 Social Work 32

KENNARD, H C “Curtailing the Sale and Trafficking of Children: A Discussion of the Hague Conference Convention in Respect of Intercountry Adoptions” (1994) 14 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law 623

KENNEDY, I and FORMICA, L “The Role and Powers of a Separate Representative” in papers delivered at a BLEC Masterclass 1995 Family Law Handbook: Day One (BLEC Books, Melbourne, March 1995)

KIM, D S “Issues in Transracial and Transcultural Adoption” (1978) 59 Social Casework 477

KIM, S P “Behavior Symptoms in Three Transracially Adopted Asian Children: Diagnosis Dilemma” (1980) 59 Child Welfare 213

KIRBY, M D “The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child as Part of International Law and Municipal Law” paper presented at First World Congress on Family Law and Human Rights (Sydney, 4-9 July 1993)

KIRTON, P and KIRTON, J “Every Child Deserves a Family” (1991) Adoption Australia (Autumn) 12

LANE, G “The Children’s Representative” CLE Seminar Papers Children’s Court Practice (Sydney, April 1995)

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LOENAN, A and HOKSBERGEN, R “Inter-country Adoption: The Netherlands; Attachment Relations and Identity” (1986) 10 Adoption and Fostering 22

McROY, R G “Significance of Ethnic and Racial Identity in Inter-country Adoption within the United States” (1991) 15 Adoption and Fostering 53

McROY, R G and ZURCHER, L A “The Identity of Transracial Adoptees” (1984) 65 Social Casework 1

McROY, R G and ZURCHER, L A Transracial and Inracial Adoptees (Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1983)

McROY, R G, ZURCHER, L A, LAUDERDALE, M L and andERSON, R N “Self-esteem and Racial Identity in Transracial and Inracial Adoptees” (1982) 27 Social Work 522

McROY, R, GROTEVANT, H and WHITE, K Openness in Adoption: New Practices, New Issues (Prager, New York, 1988)

MEADOWS, H “A contradiction in terms?: Child Welfare and the Adversary System” (1995) 69 Law Institute Journal 307

MELINA, L R “Hague Treaty Hopes to Solve Problems in Intercountry Adoptions” (1993) 12 Adopted Child 1

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MOGGACH, L “Openness: Changing Practice, Changing Perceptions” in Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Adoption Conference Has Adoption a Future? (Post Adoptive Resource Centre, Sydney, 1995)

MORGAN, R “Intercountry Adoptions: The New Convention and its Development of the Principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” paper presented at First World Congress on Family Law and Human Rights (Sydney, 4-9 July 1993)

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MULLINS, G P (ed) Intercountry Adoption, Proceedings of the Public Seminar at University of Adelaide, July 1977, Publication No 58 (Department of Continuing Education, University of Adelaide, 1977)

MULLINS, G P (ed) The Year of the Child: International Responsibilities, Proceedings of the Public Seminar at University of Adelaide, May 1979, Publication No 67 (Department of Continuing Education, University of Adelaide, 1979)

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NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BUREAU Parents for Children: Some Findings from a Research Project (London, 1985)

NATIONAL HEALTH and MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE Ethical Guidelines on Assisted Reproduction Technology (AGPS, December 1996)

NEW SOUTH WALES - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES A Review of Substitute Care Service for Aboriginal People in New South Wales: Report Prepared by the Aboriginal Review Committee (September 1995)

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NEW SOUTH WALES - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES Placement of Aboriginal Children for Adoption (Draft Policy Statement, 8 May 1987)

NEW SOUTH WALES - DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH and COMMUNITY SERVICES Adoption - Options for Reform 1985

NEW SOUTH WALES - PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Review of Adoption Policy and Practice in New South Wales (Report, December 1984)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Artificial Conception: In Vitro Fertilization (Report 58, 1988)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Artificial Conception: Surrogate Motherhood (Report 60, 1988)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Intercountry Adoption and Parent Support Groups (Research Report 6, 1997)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Review of the Adoption Information Act 1990 (Report 69, July 1992)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW) (Issues Paper 9, May 1993)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW) (Discussion Paper 34, April 1994)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (Research Report 7, 1997)

NGABONZIZA, D “Inter-country Adoption: In Whose Best Interests?” (1988) 12 Adoption and Fostering 35

NICHOLSON, A “Indigenous Customary Law and Family Law” address given to the Indigenous Customary Law Forum (Canberra, 18 October 1995)

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PERRY, T “Race and Child Placement: The Best Interests Test and the Cost of Discretion” (1991) 29 Journal of Family Law 51

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ROUGHLEY, A “Intra Family Adoption in NSW - Issues and Realities” in CLE Seminar Papers Developments in the Law of Adoptions (Sydney 1994)

ROUGHLEY, A “Intra Family Adoption in NSW” in Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Adoption Conference Has Adoption a Future? (Post Adoptive Resource Centre, Sydney, 1995)

ROUGHLEY, A Identifying Adoption Practice and Problems in Relation to the Local Adoption of Infants Project prepared at the request of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission (September 1993)

ROWLand, R “Women and Infertility Part 2: Infertility and Reproductive Technology: Some Issues” paper commissioned by the Victorian Women’s Advisory Council (predecessor to the Victorian Women’s Consultative Council) (Victoria, June 1988)

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SMITH, D “The Right of the Child to be Heard - The Family Court’s Response”, paper presented at Law Council of Australia, 29th Australian Legal Convention The Competitive Edge - Proceedings (Brisbane, 24-28 September 1995)

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SYKES, R Black Majority (Hudson Publishing, Melbourne, 1989)

TASKER, F L and GOLOMBOK, S “Children raised by Lesbian Mothers: The Empirical Evidence” (1991) 21 Family Law 184

THOBURN, J and CHARLES, M “A Review of Research which is Relevant to Intercountry Adoption” (University of East Anglia, Norwich, September 1991) in United Kingdom - Department of Health, Welsh Office and Scottish Office Inter-Departmental Review of Adoption Law - Intercountry Adoption (Background Paper No 3, January 1992)

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TUPMAN, R “Family Law Applications Involving Children Outside the Family Court’s Jurisdiction” CLE Seminar Papers Children’s Legal Services (Sydney, November 1994)

UNITED KINGDOM - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WELSH OFFICE and SCOTTISH OFFICE Inter-Departmental Review of Adoption Law - Intercountry Adoption (Background Paper No 3, January 1992)

UNITED KINGDOM - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WELSH OFFICE, HOME OFFICE, LORD CHANCELLOR’S DEPARTMENT Adoption: The Future (HMSO, London, November 1993)

VAN KEPPEL, M “Openness in Adoption: Birth Parents and Negotiated Adoption Agreements” (1991) 15 Adoption and Fostering 85

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VICTORIAN FAMILY and CHILDREN’S SERVICES COUNCIL The Intercountry Adoption Service in Victoria - A Follow Up Review (July 1991)

WALKER, Y “Aboriginal Concepts of the Family” (1993) 18 Children Australia 26

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA - ADOPTION LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE Final Report: A New Approach to Adoption (February 1991)


Terms of reference | Participants | Executive summary | List of recommendations
1. INTRODUCTION | 2. THE CONCEPT OF ADOPTION | 3. THE ADOPTION PROCESS
4. PARTICULAR CATEGORIES OF ADOPTION | 5. CONSENT TO ADOPTION
6. SELECTION OF ADOPTIVE PARENTS | 7. OPENNESS IN ADOPTION | 8. CULTURAL HERITAGE
9. ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CHILDREN | 10. INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
11. SURROGACY, DONOR REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND ADOPTION | APPENDIX A: SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED | SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | ADOPTION BILL 1997 | INDEX



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