This radio segment from ABC News Australia examines a current adoption debate in Australia. "Adoptees and child safety experts are urging the Federal Government to 'slow' its efforts to make adopting a child easier in Australia," says ABC. "A parliamentary inquiry is investigating why, out of the tens of thousands of children in out-of-home care, only a couple of hundred are adopted each year. Many of the inquiry's submissions say the low rate is a good thing, but others are urging a reduction in red tape."
The segment includes interviews with an adult adoptee, a woman who sought to have her children adopted by her husband (the children's step father), as well as Griffith University's Social Work and Child Safety expert, who says that "easier is not a good way to measure adoption success" and calls on the federal government to conduct long-term studies before making any decisions.