What makes adoptive family life work? : adoptive parents’ narratives of the making and remaking of adoptive kinship

Adoption theory, policy and practice have undergone considerable change in the period between the introduction of the Adoption Act (1976) and the Adoption and Children Act (2002). In this period, in particular, adoption has increasingly come to be understood within the context of an ethic of 'o...

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Main Author: Jones, Christine A.
Published: Durham University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495847