Some of these children will go on to be adopted. Others will move to long term foster care or be raised by special guardians and kinship carers, but adoption is unique in the way it permanently severs a child’s legal relationship to their birth families – a decision that has lifelong implications for the adopted person, their birth families, and their adoptive families.
Yet the policy, legislation and public rhetoric around adoption too often fails to recognise its lifelong nature or keep up with the developing needs of adoptive families and adopted people. Much has been done to encourage prospective adopters to come forward and to streamline the approvals process but, soon after a child moves in with their adoptive family, the policy shortfalls become evident.
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