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ISS/IRC Code	TOOL-LEG NZL-001
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Title	Adoption and Its Alternatives: A Different Approach and a New Framework
Author	Law Commission
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Date published/issue	09-00-2000
Date received	00-00-0000
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Publisher	Law Commission, 89 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand - Email: com@lawcom.govt.nz
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Page	340
Price
ISBN	1 877187 57 7
Type of material	Book
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Index	Adoption-relative Prepa-adoption-child Legislation-comment Substitute-family Secrecy-adoption Ethics Origins-info Adoption-open Prepa-adoption-paps Fam-orig-info-counsel Child-interest
Free text	This book reviews adoption legislation in New Zealand. The Commissioners propose reforms in adoption law and practice. The book contains information and commentaries with recommendations in various areas of adoption law that include: secrecy in adoption; adoption in the tradition of indigenous peoples (Maori); open adoption or adoption with contact with the birth family; the Care of Children Act and how adoption could be inscribed within it as part of a child protection measure; pre-adoptive counselling for birth parents and prospective adoptive parents; intra-family adoption or care (relative adoption); ethical issues and risks raised by medically-assisted reproduction, as well as access to information for the child born from such treatment.