Adoptive family life and adoption support
Policy ambivalence and the development of effective services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12569944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Luckock (0000-0003-1558-0370, University of Sussex, corresponding author), Angie Hart (0000-0002-5034-5950, University of Brighton) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-134 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Child & Family Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-7500 • E-ISSN: 1365-2206 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2005.00358.x |
| OpenAlex | W2049794041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 5 |
Adoption policy and practice in England is being ‘modernized’ in order to increase the number of permanent placements for children in public care. Success depends on improving adoption services as well as reforming the adoption process itself. To this end the Adoption and Children Act 2002 places new duties on local authorities to ensure greater consistency and quality of service in adoption support as well as in care planning. Questions now arise locally about what priority and focus to give to adoption support. Yet service development is inhibited by the ambivalence of New Labour about exactly what it is that adoption support is supposed to be supporting and how. Funds are limited and service re‐organization is always difficult to achieve. However, mixed policy messages result largely from the ambiguous social role and expectations of adoptive family life and kinship. In law adoption replicates the autonomous normative birth family whilst in policy it provides reparative parenting for particularly vulnerable children. A lack of clarity about the claims for support of those affected by adoption results. This paper argues a fresh case for the distinctive claims of adoptive family life for support. It suggests how new thinking about adoptive family life and kinship might stimulate local service collaboration and effective adoption support
Ambivalence · Business · CLARITY · Consistency (knowledge bases · Kinship · Normative · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Service (business · Service delivery framework · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Support in Illness · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Marketing
Encounters with liminality
The Emotional Experience of Adoption, a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Kinship by design’ in E ngland
Constrained adoptive parenthood and family transition
More Adoptions, More Quickly’
Open Adoption
Core Principles and Therapeutic Objectives for Therapy with Adoptive and Permanent Foster Families
Making and Breaking Family Life
Adoption Support and the Negotiation of Ambivalence in Family Policy and Children's Services
Adoption wars
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |