NRS-14660 | Files relating to adoption matters [Dependent Children and Adoptions Branch, Department of Community Services]

This series consists of correspondence files dealing with a wide range of matters touching on the sensitive issue of adoption: access to information to English born adoptees resident in New South Wales; a research project of the Children's Medical Research Foundation at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children evaluating adoption during the first five years post-adoption; the adoptee beneficiary of a deceased estate; infringements of privacy; the problems of children adopted under Australian law by British nationals returning to the United Kingdom; and submissions re the use of natural parents' given names in the pamphlet "My Story".(12/4575.2). 1 bundle. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.