Story: Adoption

More links and websites

• Adoption and its alternatives: a different approach and a new framework

  A 2000 report from the Law Commission about the history of adoption and adoption law in New Zealand (PDF, 1.22 MB).

• Adoption: Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children

  Information from Oranga Tamariki on adoption.

• Convention on jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition of decrees relating to adoptions

  The Hague Convention on the protection of children and co-operation in respect of inter-country adoptions.

• Adoption New Zealand

  Adoption New Zealand provides support and resources for people affected by adoption, as well as raising awareness about adoption practices and legislation.

More suggestions and sources

• Couchman, J. ‘Intercountry adoption in New Zealand – a child rights perspective.’ Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 2, no. 3 (November 1997): 421–450.

• Dalley, Bronwyn. ‘Ex-nuptial births, adoption, foster care and child abuse.’ In Family matters: child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998, 216–258.

• Else, Anne with Haenga-Collins, Maria. A question of adoption: closed stranger adoption in New Zealand, 1944–1974 and Adoption, state care, donor conception and surrogacy, 1975–2022. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2023 (e-book only.)

• Griffith, Keith C. The right to know who you are: reform of adoption law with honesty, openness and integrity. Ottawa: K. W. Kimbell, 1991.

• Shawyer, Joss. Death by adoption. Auckland: Cicada, 1979.