History of adoption: stories about the adoption experience in Australia in the 1970s

This sub-collection contains the personal stories of people who have experiences with adoption during the 1970s, 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.

本子数据集收录了由“收养史项目（History of Adoption Project）”采集的、20世纪70年代有收养经历人群的个人叙事。其涵盖范围不限于被收养者、亲生分离父母、收养父母以及协助开展收养事务的专业人士。所有叙事以文档与音频文件形式留存，每条叙事均通过以下维度进行分类：所属州/领地、都市/区域属性、涉事年代、收养经历类型。
本次国家级“收养史项目”由莫纳什大学（Monash University）的玛丽安·夸特利（Marian Quartly）牵头，联合莫纳什大学的丹妮丝·卡思伯特（Denise Cuthbert）与澳大利亚天主教大学的舒利·斯温（Shurlee Swain）共同推进。该项目旨在：揭示收养行为在澳大利亚拓殖社会中反映并塑造家庭理想的独特路径；推动未来收养相关政策与实务的优化制定；将那些因收养经历而人生轨迹发生改变的人群的叙事纳入历史叙事体系，以认可该类经历的价值，并结合政策变迁对其进行解读；同时评估并阐释澳大利亚收养实践的历史影响——这一研究无论对于学术知识积累、政策制定，还是深化澳大利亚社会大众的认知均具有重要意义。