Category: Adoption Act 1926
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A century of legal adoption
In readiness for the centenary of the first Adoption of Children Act (passed in 1926 and enacted in 1927), Coram has commissioned a special edition of their academic journal, created a timeline of adoption history on their website, and is calling for a hundred personal ‘stories of adoption’ by people ‘touched by adoption’ [insert barf…
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Faulty goods
Initially offering permanence only for the adopters—most adoption societies offered a ‘return at any time’ policy while making mothers sign their child over for life—once the first Adoption Act had been passed in 1926 and parental rights and responsibilities could be legally transferred, permanence worked both ways. […] The reality of this permanency came as…
Adoption History 