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1984) Pride Against Prejudice, Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Williams, N. (1986) The Yolngu and Their Land, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. adoption and fostering Conventionally, fostering involves a parent or set of parents looking after someone else’s child, often on a long-term basis, whereas adoption involves in addition the acquisition of a ‘kin’ relationship between such parents and their (adopted) children. Both practices involve the assumption of parental roles by individuals who are not the child’s biological or birthparents, but the addition of kinship status in adoption makes that concept both more problematic and more interesting.

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