The permanent removal of children from their families of origin to place with another family for adoption is coming under greater critical scrutiny across the world. Cath Lambert challenges readers to consider alternative narratives to the adoption story, stepping away from dominant narratives to ones rooted in lived experience.
1. Introduction: What is Adoption?
2. Knowledge and Power in the Adoption Archive
3. Developing Alternative Knowledges and Ways of Knowing
4. Telling Life Stories: The Power and Difficulty of Words
5. Telling Stories in New Ways using Bodies, Senses and Emotions
6. Hopeful Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Trauma
7. Thinking Differently With and About Attachment
8. Conclusions: Re/Forming Adoption?
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