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Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015

Chambers Lori
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781487523305
Publisert
2018-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, P, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Chambers Lori

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Lori Chambers is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.

Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015

Chambers Lori
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Chambers Lori
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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<p>‘This is a timely and through analysis that will be of interest to scholars of legal and family history.’</p>

- Tarah Brookfield, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth vol 11:01:2018

<p>"Chambers’s scholarship provides needed insights into the origins of adoption law, the dubious tactics of social workers…, the responsibilities of putative fathers, the sordid tale of child apprehension, the debate between closed and open adoptions, and the fight to be legally recognized as parents by step-parents, same-sex parents, and biological fathers."</p>

- Debra Nash-Chambers, Wilfred Laurier University, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice of unmarried fathers in newborn adoption, the reasons for movement away from secrecy in adoption, the evolution of step-parent adoption, the adoption of Indigenous children, and the growth of international adoption. Unlike other works on adoption, this book focuses explicitly on statutes, statutory debates, and the interpretation of statutes in court. In doing so, she concludes that adoption is an inadequate response to child welfare and on its own cannot solve problems regarding child neglect and abuse. Rather, Chambers argues that in order to reform the area of adoption we must first acknowledge that it is built upon social inequalities within and between nations.
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Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921.
Introduction Chapter One: “Such a Program of Legislation”: Illegitimacy and Law Reform Chapter Two: “Doubtful of her Veracity”: Procedures and Judgment under the Children of Unmarried Parents Act Chapter Three: “I did not bring this child into the world BY MYSELF”: Stories of Pregnancy Chapter Four: “Best for Our Babies”: The Adoption Mandate Chapter Five: “Haunted by Bills”: Lone Motherhood and Poverty Chapter Six: “Known as MRS. S”: Cohabitation and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act ConclusionsBibliography  
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"With her usual scholarly rigour, Lori Chambers untangles the interwoven relations of the law, society and the state concerning adoption in Ontario. She brings clarity to a subject not infrequently paradoxical, even as a social construct: adoption, she demonstrates, was not always "in the best interests" of the children at its centre despite the laws developed exactly to that end."　
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<p>‘This is a timely and through analysis that will be of interest to scholars of legal and family history.’</p>

- Tarah Brookfield, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth vol 11:01:2018

<p>"Chambers’s scholarship provides needed insights into the origins of adoption law, the dubious tactics of social workers…, the responsibilities of putative fathers, the sordid tale of child apprehension, the debate between closed and open adoptions, and the fight to be legally recognized as parents by step-parents, same-sex parents, and biological fathers."</p>

- Debra Nash-Chambers, Wilfred Laurier University, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice of unmarried fathers in newborn adoption, the reasons for movement away from secrecy in adoption, the evolution of step-parent adoption, the adoption of Indigenous children, and the growth of international adoption. Unlike other works on adoption, this book focuses explicitly on statutes, statutory debates, and the interpretation of statutes in court. In doing so, she concludes that adoption is an inadequate response to child welfare and on its own cannot solve problems regarding child neglect and abuse. Rather, Chambers argues that in order to reform the area of adoption we must first acknowledge that it is built upon social inequalities within and between nations.
Les mer
Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921.
Introduction Chapter One: “Such a Program of Legislation”: Illegitimacy and Law Reform Chapter Two: “Doubtful of her Veracity”: Procedures and Judgment under the Children of Unmarried Parents Act Chapter Three: “I did not bring this child into the world BY MYSELF”: Stories of Pregnancy Chapter Four: “Best for Our Babies”: The Adoption Mandate Chapter Five: “Haunted by Bills”: Lone Motherhood and Poverty Chapter Six: “Known as MRS. S”: Cohabitation and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act ConclusionsBibliography  
Les mer
"With her usual scholarly rigour, Lori Chambers untangles the interwoven relations of the law, society and the state concerning adoption in Ontario. She brings clarity to a subject not infrequently paradoxical, even as a social construct: adoption, she demonstrates, was not always "in the best interests" of the children at its centre despite the laws developed exactly to that end."　
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487523305
Publisert
2018-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, P, 05, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Chambers Lori

Om bidragsyterne

Lori Chambers is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.

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