The Donaldson Adoption Institute is based in New York and promised to offer “independent and objective adoption research, education, and advocacy that addressed the needs of birth parents, adopted people, adoptive parents, the people who love them, and the professionals that serve them.”
However, the Institute appears to have closed its doors, or at least shut down its adoption reform efforts, though they have kindly left a lot of their research up on their site and some of it is free.
While this is a US based organisation and some of the content may not apply to the UK directly, it may offer some powerful insights where US and UK policies on adoption cross.
While we have not had the chance to look at the publicly available content on the Institute’s site, at first glance it looks very interesting.
Here are some reports we thought our readers would find useful:
- Adoption and birth certificates (access, rights)
- Birth Parents (safeguarding the rights and wellbeing of birth parents, best practice)
- Identity (pioneering research on adoptee identity)
- Openness in Adoption (ongoing relationships between adopters, adoptees and birth parents)
- US Adoption reform (recommendations)
- Opinion Surveys on Adoption (adopters, adoptees and birth parents)
There’s also an archive with the Institute’s newsletters, which offer emerging issues in adoption law, policy, practice, research, news and resources up until 2018.
Hi Natasha
Thanks for this, I have been attempting to take an eagle eye view around the (western) world at ‘trends’ in the so called ‘child protection’ sector for some time now.
Something that struck me (that I have yet to follow up on) was the timings of changes to legislation in different jurisdictions that have allowed further state intervention into family life. So for example, I think I picked up somewhere that there was some ‘pro adoption’ legislation changes in the Clinton era that seemed to have parallels to the UK Children’s Acts etc.
Seeing this blog I am wondering if you had seen anything that has sparked your curiosity.
Best wishes as ever,
Teresa x
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Hi Teresa, thanks for your comment. Have a look around the site, there may be something of interest. x
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Honesty in all aspects of adoption suggests progress, especially for the children involved.
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Honesty in all aspects of adoption suggests progress, especially for the children involved.
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Honesty can you point me to that as I would like to note any part of honesty of actions by social workers.
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honest wow can you point me to where it is as making special notes if its to do with social workers re blogged here https://www.facebook.com/groups/345642318806046/
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