To search for self : the experience of access to adoption information / editors: Phillip and Shurlee Swain. - Sydney : Federation Press, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129)

Adoption: was it ever thus? / Shurlee Swain -- The growth and role of self help groups / Deborah Lee -- Adoption information services: myths and realities / Phillip Swain -- Testing adoption assumptions through legislation / Gerard McPhee -- To know one's child: the relinquishing mother's dilemma / Marie Meggitt -- Relinquishment counselling of birth fathers / Rosemary Nicholls and Mina Levy -- Support for adoptive parents / Josephine Hale -- The mediation process: a delicate balance of complex human needs and emotions / Farley O'Dea, Suzanne Midford and Mercurio Cicchini -- Reproductive technology: what can we learn from the adoption experience? / Pauline Ley -- The social construction of adoption and surrogacy: a comparison / Heather Dietrich -- Current access provisions in Australia / Phillip Swain.

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Adoption--Law and legislation--Australia
Adoption--Australia
Disclosure of information--Australia

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