How Long to Read A Question of Adoption

How Long Does it Take to Read A Question of Adoption?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 2 minutes to read A Question of Adoption by Anne Else

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A Question of Adoption gives a richly detailed, immensely readable account of the ideology and practice of closed stranger adoption in New Zealand, from pregnancy through to the final adoption order and its aftermath. Anne Else’s scrupulous, moving narrative explores social and moral attitudes towards ‘unmarried mothers’, ‘unwanted children’ and ‘childless couples’ during the 1950s and 1960s. She shows how the resulting system took shape, how it worked (or failed to work), and its lifelong effects on everyone involved, then sets out how and why change began to occur. This new e-book edition, written with Maria Haenga-Collins, includes seven ground-breaking new chapters providing a comprehensive account of creating and transferring children through the related processes of adoption, state care, donor conception and surrogacy. It details how so many Māori children were and still are cut off from their whānau and whakapapa through adoption and state care, both stemming from racist colonial ideology, and how the Adoption Act 1955 came to be seen as glaringly at odds with contemporary concepts of children’s rights and best interests. It examines New Zealand’s complex history of using ‘third parties’ to create children through reproductive technology, and the lengthy unresolved debates over regulation. The final chapter looks at local and global risks now facing human reproduction, connection, and reproductive justice.

How long is A Question of Adoption?

A Question of Adoption by Anne Else is 534 pages long, and a total of 135,636 words.

This makes it 180% the length of the average book. It also has 166% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Question of Adoption Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 21 minutes to read A Question of Adoption aloud.

What Reading Level is A Question of Adoption?

A Question of Adoption is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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