Adoption tends to be understood on a largely symbolic level by those who have not examined its legal reality or the lifelong and intergenerational impacts of being adopted and living under an Adoption Act. But beyond the myths, adoption from care means transferring a vulnerable child from being under an Act that has specific requirements for their Standard of Care, and requires follow up checks on their welfare, and placing them under an Act that has no safeguards or protections recognising that they are not related to the people caring for them. Their ancestry and relationship rights are severed, and their rights to know or contact their natural families even as adults are radically restricted.
ARA Submission 19 PDF Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc. Submission to the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee Child Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 3 August 2020 Contents Part 1. Introduction. Part 1.1 Summary. Part 2. About ARA.. Part 3. Overview.. Part 3.1 The Issue of Past vs Current Adoption. Part … Continue reading ARA Submission to the Qld Legal Affairs & Community Safety Committee
