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© British Association of Social Workers

A.I.D. and Adoption: Some Comparisons

JOAN BRANDON1 and JILL WARNER2

1Joan Brandon trained in Newcastle and Manchester where she took the certificate in psychiatric social work. She practised in a teaching hospital in Newcastle before becoming a social work teacher at Newcastle and Manchester Universities. At present she holds a CCETSW fellowship at the University of East Anglia doing research on field work assessment in social work education. She has practised and done research in association with voluntary adoption agencies and this continues in Leicester where she now lives.

2Jill Warner trained as a nurse and health visitor before working in child care and adoption. She has been a social worker in a maternity hospital and is now Student Unit Supervisor in a health care unit in Leicester.

Summary

This paper is an attempt to put forward for discussion some of the similarities and differences between adoption and artificial insemination by donor, as attempts to solve the problem of childlessness. The legal position and the view of the Church are briefly summarized. It is suggested that work already done in adoption, particularly with reference to telling the child, has relevance for A.I.D., and that there are implications for social workers.


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