Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures and tables ix
4. Notes on contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introducing the field of adoption from care 1
7. Adoption from care in risk-oriented child protection systems
8. Adoption from care in England: learning from experience 17
9. Overcoming the Soviet legacy? Adoption from care in Estonia 33
10. Adoption of children from state care in Ireland: in whose best interests? 49
11. Adoption from care: policy and practice in the United States 67
12. Adoption from care in family service-oriented child protection systems
13. Adoption from care in Austria 87
14. Adoption from care in Finland: currently an uncommon alternative to foster care 103
15. Adoption from care in Germany: inconclusive policy and poorly coordinated practice 121
16. Adoption from care in Norway 139
17. Adoption from care in Spain 157
18. Human rights platform and ways of belonging
19. International human rights law governing national adoption from care 177
20. Creating ‘family’ in adoption from care 195
21. Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway 215
22. The adoptive kinship network: issues around birth family contact in adoption 233
23. Making sense of adoption from care in very different contexts 249
24. Index 265