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Post by chinababe on Feb 18, 2010 17:41:31 GMT 10
www.aihw.gov.au/publications/cws/36/10858.pdfIn 2008–09: • There were 441 adoptions in Australia (2.0 per 100,000 population)—only one more adoption than in the previous year. Of these, 61% were intercountry, 15% were local and 24% were ‘known’ child adoptions (see Glossary for definitions). • Of the children in local and intercountry adoptions, 59% had adoptive parents aged 40 years and over, and just over half (53%) were adopted into families with no other children. • Two-thirds (66%) of adoptions could be considered ‘open’—that is, all parties were open to freely discussing the adoption within their families, and were happy to allow contact to occur between families. The remaining third (34%) were adoptions where birth parents had requested no contact or information between them and the adopting family. • For ‘known’ child adoptions, almost two-thirds (64%) of adoptions were by step-parents, and a further one-third (34%) were by carers.
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