Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 10, 2017 17:22:07 GMT 12
CLOSED ADOPTIONS A FORM OF VIOLENCE
A team of scholars say the legal practice of closed adoption raised "disconnected" people, and is a form of violence.
The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming the future.
The project has been successful in this year's round of Marsden Fund applications, receiving $845,000.
Te Wananga o Raukawa spokeswoman Ani Mikaere said that the practice of placing infants with strangers and effectively severing their relationship with their roots and whakapapa, is completely foreign to Maori. .....
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A team of scholars say the legal practice of closed adoption raised "disconnected" people, and is a form of violence.
The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming the future.
The project has been successful in this year's round of Marsden Fund applications, receiving $845,000.
Te Wananga o Raukawa spokeswoman Ani Mikaere said that the practice of placing infants with strangers and effectively severing their relationship with their roots and whakapapa, is completely foreign to Maori. .....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11942507