Abstract

In 2004 the sociologist Rosemary Pringle remarked that the 'climate of apology' surrounding adoption in Australia, linked with understandable shame regarding past adoption practices and the 'stolen generation' of Aboriginal children, meant that it had become 'almost impossible' to endorse adoption as a policy option (Pringle 2004, 225). In 2004, this was an apt call for all the reasons outlined astutely by Pringle.

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