Adoption And Law Av Lisamarie Deblasio

<P>Using a socio-legal framework, this book explores the experiences that birth mothers face in state sanctioned adoption proceedings in the UK. Featuring personal, in-depth interviews and conversations with 32 birth mothers, the book highlights perspectives and voices that are seldom the focus in leading discourses of professional practice in this area of law. The book also demands that the statutory rights, support and care of birth mothers are recognised and strengthened.<BR><BR>This book delivers a comprehensive insight into many aspects and controversies of legal child adoption, including the development and reform of adoption law over history, giving the reader insight into the deep-rooted political and social tensions around the use of adoption. The uniqueness of birth mothers'' subjective stories of adoption contrasts powerfully with the legal theory providing the reader with an intimate paradigm of adoption.<BR><BR>The book includes discussion of <I>obiter dicta </I>and author

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