| For one participant being a whangai was seen to provide both benefits and tensions. |
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| Is that definition limited strictly to whangai who are descended by blood from their original family? |
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| So the issue of whangai and adopted children, so far as the Adoption Act of 1955 and also the Human Rights Act are concerned, is a real issue. |
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| In respect of whangai, without a legal adoption there is still room for the tikanga of a particular tribe to apply. |
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| We had quite a discussion at the select committee about the issue of whangai, and how those people fit in. |
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| The Native Health Act of 1909 meant that Maori women could no longer breast feed, nor use whangai systems to adopt children. |
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| We said that surely on issues of whangai, the expressions in the bill should be closely aligned to what that iwi wanted. |
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| As she will be aware, respective iwi have their own tikanga in terms of whangai. |
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| The play looks at the stresses caused by having different degrees of fluency in Maori, as the children, students and whangai of a Maori educator gather at his tangi. |
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| The issue with regard to whangai is very important to Maori. |
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| Maori people, with great anxiety, a huge amount of consultation, and a great degree of angst, thought very carefully about the process of whangai. |
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