Hollinger J H
University of California, Berkeley and Davis Schools of Law, USA.
Future Child. 1995 Winter;5(3):205-11.
The Spring 1993 issue of The Future of Children focused on adoption. Guest Editor Dr. Irving Schulman and the Center staff emphasized the significant societal as well as private benefits of adoption, especially for children in need of permanent families, and called for careful consideration of policies intended to remove persistent and unreasonable barriers to adoption. In an article which appeared in that issue, Joan Hollinger discussed how a complex regulatory system, as well as the lack of consensus about the functions served by adoption, produces uncertainty on issues as basic as determining who are the "parents" whose consent is required for adoption, evaluating the suitability of prospective adoptive parents for different kinds of children, deciding how much information must or may be shared between birth and adoptive families, and distinguishing between lawful placement activities and illegal "baby-selling." Hollinger and the Center staff recommended passage of more uniform state adoption laws to facilitate adoption while adequately protecting the interests of all parties. This article describes the proposed Uniform Adoption Act (UAA) promulgated in 1994 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and discusses the likelihood of its enactment by the states.
1993年春季版的《儿童的未来》聚焦于收养问题。客座编辑欧文·舒尔曼博士及该中心工作人员强调了收养对社会和个人的重大益处，尤其是对那些需要永久家庭的儿童而言，并呼吁认真考虑旨在消除收养中持续存在且不合理障碍的政策。在该期发表的一篇文章中，琼·霍林格探讨了复杂的监管体系以及对收养功能缺乏共识如何在一些基本问题上产生不确定性，比如确定收养时需要征得谁的同意才算是“父母”、评估不同类型儿童的准养父母是否合适、决定亲生家庭和收养家庭之间必须或可以分享多少信息，以及区分合法的安置活动和非法的“贩卖婴儿”行为。霍林格和该中心工作人员建议通过更为统一的州收养法，以促进收养，同时充分保护各方利益。本文介绍了统一州法律专员全国会议（NCCUSL）于1994年颁布的《统一收养法》（UAA）提案，并讨论了该提案被各州立法通过的可能性。
