Adoption Deception

A Personal and Professional Journey

Penny Mackieson

• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781742199696
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Have you ever wondered how it might feel to have been adopted in Australia during the pre-1980s era in which vulnerable young mothers were coerced into relinquishing their babies? How it might feel to have grown up, become a social worker and worked with vulnerable children and families? This book provides answers to those difficult questions. Adoption Deception presents the personal and professional reflections of Penny Mackieson, an Australian adoptee and social worker, on issues associated with adoption – many of which are shared with donor conception and surrogacy. For anyone with an experience of or interest in adoption, whether personal or professional, who is open to perspectives other than those selectively portrayed by populist mainstream media, this book will provide invaluable insights.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Other books by Penny Mackieson
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 A brown-eyed baby girl
• 2 A chronology of adoption in Australia
• 3 A social worker in intercountry adoption
• 4 Apology or hypocrisy?
• 5 A campaign
• 6 Where to from here for adoption in Australia?
• Appendix I: Prime Minister Julia Gillard's National Apology Speech including the National Apology for Forced Adoptions (21 March 2013)
• Appendix II: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's Speech (21 March 2013)
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
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