History of adoption: stories about the adoption experience in Australia in the 1990s

This sub-collection contains the personal stories of people who have experiences with adoption during the 1990s, captured through the History of Adoption Project. It includes (but is not limited to) stories from adopted persons, separated parents, adopting parents, and professionals assisting with adoption. Stories are in the form of documents and audio files. Each story is classified by the following characteristics: state or territory, metropolitan or regional, decade, adoption experience.
The national History of Adoption project, led by Marian Quartly (Monash University), with Denise Cuthbert (Monash University) and Shurlee Swain (Australian Catholic University), seeks to discover the distinctive ways in which adoption has reflected and shaped family ideals within Australian settler society; to influence the making of future policy and practice on adoption; to bring into history the stories of people whose lives have been changed by adoption, in order to acknowledge that experience and to read it against policy change; and to assess and explain the historical outcomes of adoption in Australia, an enterprise significant both for academic knowledge, the making of policy and the understanding of the wider Australian community.

这个子集合收录了1990年代有收养经历人士的个人故事，这些故事由收养历史项目（History of Adoption Project）记录。内容包括（但不限于）被收养者、离异父母、收养父母以及协助收养的专业人士的故事。故事形式为文档与音频文件，每条故事均按以下特征分类：州或领地、都市或区域、年代、收养经历。

澳大利亚全国性的收养历史项目（History of Adoption Project）由莫纳什大学（Monash University）的Marian Quartly牵头，联合莫纳什大学的Denise Cuthbert与澳大利亚天主教大学（Australian Catholic University）的Shurlee Swain共同开展。该项目旨在探索收养在澳大利亚定居者社会中反映并塑造家庭理想的独特方式；影响未来收养政策与实践的制定；将收养改变人生的人士故事纳入历史记载，以认可这些经历并结合政策变迁加以解读；以及评估并阐释澳大利亚收养的历史成果——这一事业对学术研究、政策制定及澳大利亚社会各界的理解均具有重要意义。