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Report of the Adoption Board 1988
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| Title: | Report of the Adoption Board 1988 |
| Authors: | Adoption Authority of Ireland |
| Publisher: | Adoption Authority of Ireland |
| Issue Date: | 1988 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247272 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | The number of applications for adoption orders made to the Board in 1988 reflects
the continuing decline in the number of children being placed for adoption. Last
year the Board received 714 applications for adoption orders. Not since 1960 have
fewer applications been received in a single year.
There was a further reduction in the number of applications relating to children
placed by the registered adoption societies and the health boards, from 449 in 1987
to 417 last year. These cases accounted for just over half of all applications received
in 1988.
Family adoptions, on the other hand, accounted for an increased proportion of
applications received and adoption orders made. In 1988 the Board received 279
such applications compared with 255 in the previous year.
Of the 649 adoption orders made by the Board last year, 217 (33%) were for
children adopted within their natural family. In 178 of these cases the adopters
were the child 's natural mother and her husband. |
| Keywords: | ADOPTION
STATISTICS |
| Series/Report no.: | Pl 6284 |
| Appears in Collections: | Adoption Authority of Ireland
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