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Adoption is a complex social phenomenon, intimately knitted into its family law framework and shaped by the pressures affecting the family in its local social context. It is a mirror reflecting the changes in our family life and the efforts of family law to address those changes. This has caused it to be variously de- fined; in different societies, in the same society at different times and across a range of contemporary societies. It is currently being re-defined in the United Kingdom.
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O’Halloran, K. (2006). ADOPTION: CONCEPT, PRINCIPLES, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. In: The Politics of Adoption. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4154-3_2
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