White Australian adoptive mothers' understandings of birth cultures and families

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2015-05-11
Authors
Riggs, Damien Wayne
Due, Clemence
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
This paper reports an analysis of interviews conducted with 10 White Australian women who had undertaken intercountry adoption. The paper begins with an overview of how issues of culture play out within discourses of intercountry adoption in general and how this occurs specifically in Australian policy in regard to intercountry adoption. The analysis highlights how the interviewees were in many ways inculcated in broader Australian discourses of intercountry adoption, as much as in some instances there was an attempt to resist this. The paper concludes by discussing how it might be possible for White adoptive mothers in Australia to do other than remain complicit with marginalizing accounts of adoptive children's birth cultures and parents.
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Adoption and parenthood
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Riggs, D.W. and Due, C., 2015. White Australian adoptive mothers' understandings of birth cultures and families. Adoption Quarterly, 18(4), 273-290.