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Adoption and Fostering - Nature or Nurture? |
23 Apr 2007 |
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As we know more and more about our genetic inheritance, and our interest in genealogy grows, what implications does this have on the way we regard adoption and fostering? Is it genes or upbringing that make us who we are? And how do adopted and fostered children accommodate what can seem to be the competing pull of birth parents and adoptive and foster parents? As ‘A Normal Life’, the Woman’s Hour drama this week, explores the complicated relationship between a young mother in prison and her son who is put into foster care, Ritula discusses the relationship between adoption, fostering and the nature-nurture debate with Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College, London and Julie Selwyn, Director of the Hadley centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies at Bristol University.The Hadley centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies at Bristol UniversityDisclaimer
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