The politics of adoption: International perspectives on law, policy and practice, 3rd edition [Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Volume 41]
Adoption is a complex social phenomenon, intimately knitted into its family law framework and shaped by the pressures affecting the family in its local social context. It is a mirror reflecting the changes in our family life and the efforts of family law to address those changes. This has caused it to be variously defined in different societies in the same society, at different times and across a range of contemporary societies.