Contested adoption in context; contested adoptions and the role of the State in family matters; contested proceedings - justice and the law; contested adoption proceedings - a barrister's perspective; contested adoptions - the winner taks all; the welfare of the child in contested proceedings; contested proceedings - what the research tells us; uses and abuses of research findings in contested cases; issues of attachment, separation and identity in contested adoptions; the role of the guardian ad litem in contested adoptions; adoptive parents and contested adoptions; contested adoptions - the perspective of birth parents; a view of wider family perspectives in contested adoptions; the use of an adversarial process in contested proceedings.
