Adoption and feminism: Towards framing a feminist response to contemporary developments in adoption

In 2004 the sociologist Rosemary Pringle remarked that the `climate of apology¿ surrounding adoption in Australia, linked with understandable shame regarding past adoption practices and the `stolen generation¿ of Aboriginal children, meant that it had become `almost impossible¿ to endorse adoption as a policy option (Pringle 2004, 225). In 2004, this was an apt call for all the reasons outlined astutely by Pringle.