Adoption

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Adoption conundrums

Rick Fitzgibbons | 06 September 2012 |

tags: adoption, same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting

Same-sex parenting deprives children of a mother or father. But isn't the same thing happening with heterosexual adoption?

No Biking in the House without a Helmet

Mary Cooney | 21 May 2012 |

tags: adoption, book reviews, large families

A rollicking account of a large and unusual family.

Tales from the Dirty War

Michael Cook | 27 September 2010 |

tags: adoption, Argentina, families, genetics

Knowledge of the human genome adds another layer of complication to family relationships.

The Waiting City

Lucy Smith | 30 August 2010 |

tags: adoption, films, India, The Waiting City

Forget Julia Roberts doing meditation. This Australian movie will tell you so much more about prayer - and love.

Is existence enough? Don’t donor-conceived kids have rights?

Margaret Somerville | 13 July 2010 |

tags: adoption, donor-conceived children, sperm donation

For whose benefit are these children created? Their own? Or their parents?

Do genetic ties matter?

Margaret Somerville | 19 October 2009 |

tags: adoption, Canada, family, Quebec

Should adopted children have the right to be connected in some way to their biological parents?

Society and artificial reproduction

Margaret Somerville | 17 February 2009 |

tags: adoption, assisted reproductive technology, IVF

Should the state assist with conception where it would not approve an adoption?

Adoption, when ‘discriminating’ makes perfect sense and gender is relevant

Jennifer Roback Morse | 09 February 2007 |

tags: adoption, homosexuality

If homosexuals care so much about gender, why should it be irrelevant when they want to adopt a child?

International adoptions: the role of the media

Adam Pertman | 30 December 2005 |

tags: adoption, media

In adoptions, as in the rest of life, mistakes and even disasters happen, but this is a field in which the media should be especially careful not to sensationalise. The happiness of tens of thousands of children and would-parents is at stake.