Adoption law should be reformed to give children legal connections to both of their families – here's why
- Written by: Karleen Gribble, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
'Simple adoption' is when an adopted child gets to maintain ties to their birth family.Marina Shatskih/Unsplash
When children are unable to live safely at home with their parents, they may enter out-of-home care. Most of these children are in foster or kinship care and many are able safely to go home after a period of time.
But for more than 23,000...